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Require CPR Training For All High School Grads?
January 30, 2013
Public school students would be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation as part of their physical education under a measure filed Tuesday. The bill would require students to complete an accredited CPR course at least once before graduating from high school. The bill is sponsored by Clay Ford, R-Gulf Breeze. Class times vary, but CPR can be successfully taught in two to three hours.
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6 Responses to “Require CPR Training For All High School Grads?”
Life Skills would be a perfect place to add this course. As I stated in my earlier post, I took it in my health class which is LS management by any other name. Besides, even if it went into a PE class, it would hardly cause an obesity epidemic! It would probably take only two weeks to complete, if that. The kids will be obese either way if they don’t change their sedentary lifestyle and diet. It’s their choice to do so.
Since children in high school only have to take 1.5 years of Physical Fitness (.5 being personal fitness), this will only add to the obesity epidemic. Don’t get me wrong, CPR is an excellent course. However, it seems more like a Life Management Skill rather than PE. The children need all of the excercise time they can get in that 1.5 year timeframe.
How about making it mandatory to know how to read and write. Lets get our prorities straight folks.
It’s been a while since I was in high school, but I had to pass CPR training in my health class in order to pass health. Since health was a mandatory credit, I needed CPR to graduate.
Many times, people need help. We should all have some rudimentary idea of how to provide it.
Yes – I have current AHA CPR certification
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The required class time for adult CPR/ Heimlich maneuver is 4 hours, the required class time for infant/child CPR/Heimlich manuver is 8 hours. this is a great thing ONLY if the students take it serious if they do not ( and some wont) it is a danger to those they try to save. I hope and pray that it will be taken as a life or death matter because it is.
Don’t forget to include the heimlich maneuver!