what is peta in school

PETA is an animal rights organization that has a humane education division called TeachKind. TeachKind provides K-12 lesson plans and classroom tips for compassionate teachers to help schools, educators, and parents promote compassion for animals in the classroom. TeachKind works with hundreds of teachers and school staff to help them replace animal dissection and experiments with comprehensive and interactive software programs. They also help implement statewide and district-level dissection-choice policies with software donations to schools all around the world. TeachKind can help teachers and students start an animal rights club at school, and they provide resources for teachers to promote kindness and compassion for animals through free lesson plans. They also offer Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS), a youth-led revolt against human supremacy, which allows students to receive e-mails and texts to let them know about campaigns and actions to help animals, activism training courses and workshops with other student activists, free stickers to spread the word, and more. PETAs humane education division has been criticized for targeting childrens education through the character education curriculum in schools. However, PETA argues that character education is an idea that easily translates into animal rights by extending the values of respect and responsibility to animals.