Teacher kills and grills rabbits in front of children

Children learning about Stone Age man in a German classroom ended up in tears and one fainted when their teacher killed two rabbits in front of their eyes with a hammer.

"They didn't have a supermarket to go to," he told the 10 and 11-year-olds at the Cesar-Klein-School in Ratekau in northern Germany. "So this is how they did it."



The teacher then grilled the rabbits - formerly petting zoo inhabitants that the children were encouraged to stroke to 'bond' with - and made the children eat bits of them. Angry parents flooded the school with complaints and signed a petition along with their children condemning the "barbarity" of the lesson.

The education ministry in Kiel that oversees schools in the state has decreed that there should be no repeat of the incident while the state's parents' association condemned the lesson as "perverse." But no disciplinary action has been taken against the killer teacher.