Who needs medical school? You can dissect a cadaver in high school if you're lucky enough to learn science with NEA member Harry Hitchcock in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

We're not talking about the usual bio lab frog, which is controversial enough. This is a (former) human being. And students are cutting into it.

These dissections aren't routine with Hitchcock--students have to get notarized permission slips from their parents, and they go to a nearby community college to actually do it.

But it is routine in his anatomy classes for students to dissect and then reassemble the skeletons of coyotes, deer, and other sizable mammals. He  gets from trappers.

Says Hitchcock, "The cadaver is catchy, but most of the learning takes place when people take a pile of bones and say, 'How do these go together?'"

He says it gets students thinking about how their bodies work, and figuring out how and why are the animals' bodies are similar to or different from our own.

Unforgettable.