And Finally...Threats to school after Marcus the sheep is slaughtered

This is one of the cruelest most callous things I have read about in a very long time. This sheep was a 'pet' not a farm animal, he was petted from a tiny baby and should have been used to teach the children how to look after an animal and the correct way to treat an animal, not to trach them of the way animals are killed and turned into meat, there are plenty of other ways this can be learnt, I for one learnt about this from watching a documentary at school and beeing told about it by teachers and that certainly wasnt when I was 6 years old. Children of 6 should be blissfully igonarant as to where meat comes from, they dont need to know or associate an animal with a chicken nugget or pork sausage, kids should be allowed to keep there innocence and not have the worry of such things.
If the school pet had been a dog or a cat would the head have decided to send that to slaughter after keeping that for several months as a pet, of course not! So why should Marcus the sheep be any different at all, a farm animal stops being a farm animal and starts being a pet, just like a cat or dog, when its given a name, bottle fed, humanised and fussed by children or people on a daily basis, and i cant thing anyone would have there own dog killed, would they? When i first read this sorry on the front of the Independent on Tuesday i was so shocked and upset it was all i could do not to burst into tears there and then, but now all i feel is utter anger, how parents can keep their child in that school after me is beyond me, the poor things must be so distressed, esp those who arent allowed pets, cant have pets to them that sheep would have been really important and now he's gone. I truly hope the headteacher at Lydd school cant sleep at night knowing what she has done and what she has put the children, parents, staff and members of the public though, she really should be sacked or forced to resign over this. If murdering the sheep wasnt bad enough auctioning off his meat to buy pigs to turn into sausages in so incredibly sick. Doesnt she realise she runs a school not a farm and last time i checked hand rearing an animal then sending it to slaughter wasnt actually on the national curriculum. Iam so appauled this has happened in our country, im disgrased by the cold hearted nature or what charman decided to do and can only wonder, if she can sanction a pet sheeps death could she raise a hand to a child, is she actually safe to work around children?
And before anyone calls me a hypocrite, i am a vegetarian and have been for many many years.