SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas school district says no one will face punishment after video surfaced of high school students using a cat's intestines as a jump rope during a lesson. 
 
 Officials with the North East Independent School District told KENS-TV (http://bit.ly/25aRmCS ) the incident happened earlier this month during an anatomy class at Winston Churchill High School. 
 
 The district said the teacher felt the lesson was "effective" for demonstrating how long and tough intestines are. 
 
 Spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor says the lesson was not meant to be disrespectful. She says neither the students nor teacher will be punished because there is no "ill will." But she says the district will update the lesson plan. 
 
 Animals rights group PETA told the TV station the school should replace "cruel and crude" dissection methods with animal-free lessons. 
 
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 The footage posted to SnapChat shows several Churchill High School students playing jump rope with what appears to be the intestines of a dissected cat. 
 
 You can watch the videos here and here. 
 
 The cat was reportedly being used in the students' anatomy class. 
 
 KENS 5 reached out to officials with NEISD who confirmed that the incident happened in early May at Winston Churchill High School. 
 
 NEISD said that the teacher, in this case, was taught this same lesson in college and felt it was "effective" for demonstrating how long and tough intestines are. 
 
 "This lesson really was not meant to be disrespectful or degrading in any way. And when the teacher found out that that's how it was being portrayed, they were actually very upset about it," NEISD spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor said. 
 
 Some students also came to their teacher’s defense. One emailed KENS 5 and said, in part: 
 
 “She is passionate in regards to her profession and continues to inspire us all through education.” 
 
 According to Chancellor, neither the students nor teacher will face punishment in this case, because there was "no ill will." However, the district said that it is time to update the lesson plan. 
 
 “At this point, we don’t think that we will be using this same lesson,” Chancellor said. “Moving forward, we will need to find a more appropriate but equally effective lesson in the future.” 
 
 The video caught the attention of the animal rights group PETA, who said that the students should be held accountable for the unethical treatment of the animal's parts. 
 
 "Studies show that classroom animal dissection can foster callousness toward living beings, and these gruesome 'jump rope' videos are a particularly sad example," PETA Senior Director of Youth Outreach and Campaigns Marta Holmberg said. "PETA is calling on Winston Churchill High School to teach its students to respect life and science by replacing crude and cruel animal dissection with humane and effective non-animal teaching methods." 
 
 PETA has also offered to donate digital dissection resources to help Churchill transition to animal-free lessons. The district has yet to say if it will take PETA up on the offer. 
 
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– A "concerned whistleblower" blew long and hard by sending a video to PETA that showed a Texas high school class jumping rope with cat intestines—but the school district says it was all part of a lesson plan that wasn't meant to be cruel to animals, per KENS 5, and the teacher won't be disciplined, the AP reports. The incident happened in an anatomy class at Winston Churchill High School in San Antonio in early May, with the unidentified teacher using the technique to show how long and resilient cat intestines are (she had witnessed a similar demo when she was a student at Texas A&M University, MySanAntonio.com notes). The teacher and the juniors and seniors shown in the video, which a North East Independent School District spokeswoman says was apparently posted to a student's social media account, are "very upset" about how the incident is being portrayed. "This was not meant to be degrading or disrespectful," she says. "The idea of the lesson was to explore the tensile strength of the organs." But while the school is sticking by the teacher's good intentions, PETA isn't taking the video lightly. "Behavior that makes light of the suffering and mutilation of animals is not only disturbing but also violates leading science education organizations' guidelines, which state that classrooms must treat animals respectfully and ethically," the group said in a statement. The teacher won't be disciplined, but she'll likely be rearranging how she teaches this particular subject. "Moving forward, we will need to find a more appropriate but equally effective lesson in the future," Chancellor tells KENS 5. PETA says it's got dissection resources that can help the school move to animal-free experiments; the school isn't saying yet whether it will check out PETA's offer. (A PETA video got the owner of the Life of Pi tiger in trouble.)