Gee whiz, a bill out of the CA legislature that is actually not unhinged for a change.
Not a bad idea!
Nothing objectionable about this, except that school should be abolished.
So the last gasp of the baby boom generation is to tax the young and force them to learn how to save us. The me generation that demanded lower drinking ages when they were young, higher drinking ages when their children were young now demand everyone know how to save them when their ticker gives out.
I just finished CPR and general First Aid training for my college course. I’m not sure how I feel about this, however.
Better than diversity training for sure!
CPR training only takes an afternoon, and they’re simplified it greatly. If you can hum “Stayin’ Alive,” you can do it. I don’t think this is an unreasonable requirement for HS graduation (and I say that with two sons moving up the pipeline here in CA for graduation in a few years). They should make it simple to find a class, though, and free.
Great to hear they are keeping to the 3 ‘R’s...
Reading, Righting, and see-pee-R’ing
As an RN, here is the problem I have- “mandate.” Did you know any idiots in high school? Any morons you wouldn’t trust loaning a piece of paper to? Kids so stupid you wondered how they stayed alive to make it to high school? More nanny state hang wringers...sometimes I just want to slap some sense into them.
CPR training is good for anyone, as is First Aid training, plus any updates. What would really benefit these school kids would be Water Safety and Basic Swim classes, plus First Aid. They are more likely to encounter problems on the beach vs having to go ‘mouth to mouth’ on somebody.
I wonder about kids that young having cardiac arrest. That suggests to me that something fundamentally wrong was going on.
I'm of mixed feelings about mandatory CPR training for everyone. It's a good idea for the kids who want to take it, but for the stupid, mentally unbalanced, etc., kids--I question the wisdom of requiring it.
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?
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.
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