But she conquers her fear. She dissects a cat for a human anatomy class with 15 of her West High School peers. The dissection project is the reason many students sign up for the elective class, and ...
Bluffton High School teacher Margaret DiPietro talks with students Ivy Schleicher, left, Carly Thomas, center, and Meg Tilton, right, Thursday morning during a class assignment dissecting a sparrow.
A group of students at MAST in Homestead, a public school devoted to medical sciences, dissect a cat carcass during a 2011 class. Miami-Dade schools are now banning the use of felines for dissection.