Texas Teacher Sparks Outrage After Feeding Kitten to Snake

We've all seen National Geographic and seen how snakes eat, right? Now imagine that happening in your classroom! It sounds a bit traumatizing, but that's exactly what happened at an Alvord, Texas high school classroom. One teacher decided to teach a lesson on how the circle of life works using the class snake and a kitten.

Teacher Feeds Kitten to Snake

The controversy started after word got out that an Alvord High School teacher fed a sick kitten to the classroom snake. At first, rumors flew that students had been forced to watch, but the district later confirmed that wasn’t true.

According to school officials, the feeding happened before the school day began with no students present. Later, the teacher explained her decision to her Advanced Animal Science class and even allowed a student, with their parent’s permission, to take the remaining kittens home. Sadly, those kittens didn’t survive either.

The teacher, described by the superintendent as an “experienced educator and animal lover,” has since apologized to her students and voluntarily removed the snakes from her classroom.

Once the story began spreading, it quickly caused outrage among students, parents, and the wider community. The district confirmed the incident, consulted with animal control and the district attorney’s office, but ultimately decided to handle it internally since it was considered an isolated case.

I certainly remember dissecting a kitten in my high school biology class, while it felt wrong- especially because I am a cat lover, I just figured it was part of the lesson.

In the end, the district says the matter has been addressed, but the incident left plenty of people shaken- especially students who heard about it after the fact. It’s one of those moments that reminds us how quickly a classroom lesson can turn into a viral headline, and in this case, one that no one in Alvord is likely to forget anytime soon.