I would take w/e pet I get home on the weekends probably.
I have a much better solution. Set every living snake on the God damn planet on fire. Where ever I teach there will be NO snakes. NO SNAKES.I don't recall what grade you teach, but snakes make great low maintanance pets, and by simply feeding them children learn about the circle of life. Alternatively, you can just feed them when the kids aren't there. If not, hamster/gerbil makes an easy pet but they often have personality issues.
I think you miss the point that w/e animal I get will be taken home by me during weekends/vacations, so it should be a pet I/my kids enjoy. I don't care that a chinchilla is exotic, I care that it's an animal I have often thought about getting if it weren't for the cats.Or just get a damn fish. Or a frog. I think the point of a class pet is being lost on you. It's not about having an exotic animal in the classroom that matters; it's the responsibility of caring for another life and watching it grow that's important. Hence, a cheap fish or amphibian, or a reptile with extremely low maintenance needs.
I also tend to kill fish.
Except I had a goldfish survive for 8 years. The rest have died within weeks.
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