What is DOEs opinion of pets in a classroom?
Pets can provide wonderful and fun educational opportunities, but every classroom has children with allergies and asthma. Pet dander could trigger a life-threatening asthma attack. Diseases such as salmonella have been linked to some pets such as turtles. The Florida Department of Health performs inspections to ensure that pet cages are kept in a sanitary condition. We recommend that each school district adopt its own policy for pets in classrooms. The most prudent policy would be to introduce the pet for its educational purpose and when it is no longer used for educational purposes, it should be removed from the classroom.
