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.

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NEWPORT BEACH – A national physicians group that opposes animal dissections in schools is calling on Newport Harbor High School to stop dissecting cats in science classes in the wake of a series of ...

BEAUFORT, S.C., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A donation to a South Carolina high school to buy cadaver cats has sparked controversy over animal dissection in schools. Battery Creek High School anatomy and ...

CULPEPER — Brynnan Grimes was appalled when she learned in August that she would have to skin and dissect a cat during her anatomy class at Culpeper County High School. “I never imagined ever having ...

THE directions for the dissection of the cat are here so arranged that the whole operation may be carried out on a single specimen, and the aim of the book is to give the student a clear survey of the ...