pavlov's mice

Bill Deese, a veteran first-grade teacher at Gilham Elementary School, struck gold seven years ago when he held the first mouse circus, inspired by a student teacher’s more modest, mouse-related classroom project.


“I like Lily ’cause she climbs really high, and I like the mouse swimming,” said Cynae Martin, who, like several other of Deese’s students, said she’ll miss first grade once school’s out.
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Hopefully, the name Pavlov rings a bell for you. He's the guy who discovered classical conditioning. Inherently meaningless events such as the sound of a bell or the sight of a white lab coat become meaningful when they become associated with inherently meaningful events such as meat on your tongue.

Pavlov is so famous that stand-up comic Eddie Izzard did a bit called "Pavlov's Cats."

Now we've got Pavlov's mice, who are "taught" to climb and swim.

lemme get this straight. Meadowlark Elementary School Principal BJ Blake is forcing children to be tolerant of an off-white male who like to bully people into calling him she, even though he has XY chromosomes and Gilham Elementary School teaches students it's fun to torture rodents (I don't think mice enjoy "swimming").

what is going on here? it's totally wacko crazy, even compared to how eugene "normally" is!!!