Class pets are an elementary school classic. If you don't have a slightly traumatic story about your class pet from when you were younger, you didn't get the full elementary school experience, and ...

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Not everyone in Dana Cornelius’ third-grade class at Peebles Elementary School gets fed a fish on his or her birthday. But Yertle does. Yertle the turtle is Cornelius’ class pet. And speaking of ...

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. (WTNH) — A controversy over a pet in a classroom in Old Saybrook has the school district reviewing its rules. The controversy began when a bearded dragon was removed from a ...

OLD SAYBROOK, CT (WFSB) - According to a forum on Change.org, people are petitioning to allow class pets back into Old Saybrook Schools. As of Thursday afternoon, there were almost 300 signatures.