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.
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.