Schools should be more careful about where they take their students on educational field trips and among the places they should avoid are amusement parks that feature dolphins, whales and other marine creatures that are held in captivity, according to a militant party-list lawmaker. In a resolution he filed last week, Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino urged the Department of Education to ban school trips to theme parks that hold such animals in captivity, saying this sends the wrong message to the students and does not really teach them anything that they cannot learn about the creatures in the classroom. These amusement parks target school officials by offering them bulk discounts or commissions to take their students there, Palatino said.

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