Posted on 04/21/2015 10:54:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would mandate that high school students receive CPR training before they graduate.
AB 319 will be heard in a committee hearing on Wednesday. Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez, D-Chino, introduced the bill in February.
The bill calls for statewide school districts and charter schools to implement a curriculum on how to perform CPR and using an automated external defibrillator.
This training would be offered in physical education classes or another course needed for students to graduate.
The program would be developed by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross. In emphasizing the reason for a law, the bill notes that only 10 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest survive.
“If no CPR is provided or no defibrillation occurs within three to five minutes of collapse, the chances of survival drop,” the bill states.
Two students died in 2006 and 2014 in the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District to sudden cardiac arrest, leading that school district to become the first in the state to implement “hands only” CPR training.
This is suggested in an effort to both raise the intelligence level of those who would make the laws for the rest of us, and to weed out domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Before “mandating” yet another requirement for graduation, I would ask if the teachers had the training first. A few years ago, I read an article about a little kid choking to death during lunchtime. No one at the school knew the Heimlich maneuver. Long story short, I called my ES and asked if the lunch aides/teacher knew CPR/choking etc. The answer was no but there were some teachers that did know. (thus, it wasn’t a requirement but some of the teachers knew on their own). If California wants it mandated, I suggest the teachers/administration/coaches/security know the proper techniques. Just my two cents.
Why don’t they mandate basic literacy first?
-PJ
Yeah, this isn’t such a bad idea.
What happens if someone dies after one of these people either doesn’t offer help, or tries to help but isn’t successful? It opens up an ocean of lawsuit possibilites for the lawyers.
I believe that type of case is covered under the Good Samaritan Law.
Give them the power to FORCE your kids to do one thing, however laudable, and everything else will follow.
Just like mandated sex ed....the state will screw it up...let the private sector take care if it...and kids can prove to their high school they got the training
***Did you know any idiots in high school? Any morons you wouldn’t trust loaning a piece of paper to?***
My thoughts exactly. I had the old CPR training in the early 1960s. Roll them on their belly, place their hands under their head, press on the back where the lungs are, lift the arms.
We did not have many idiots as it was an all male gym class. The idiot level came out later when REAL CPR started being taught to mixed classes of boys and girls.
I had later better CPR training in the military and later when I worked in power plants.
I had the pleasure of using CPR on a kid injured in a motorcycle wreck. It felt just like the Red Cross dummy we used in class.
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