One of the most effective arguments used in Virginia against the humane education bill pointed out the time that would be taken from students (and teachers) needed to prepare them to pass the state's required Standards of Learning (SOL) testing program.
The argument for humane education is seductive. After all, we want our kids to grow up with an empathy for other living things, do we not?
I take that as a rhetorical question. Of course the answer is not. Not if it takes time away from what they should be studying and not for the schools to be bothering themselves with. Schools are a place of learning. Not a place of indoctrination.