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...choked on the left wing rhetoric?
If the teachers are lucky, they will only be sued and not charged with negligent homicine.
This sounds like BS. If I was a witness to the choking the teacher who tried to close my phone would have to learn how to write tests with their left hand.
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If he made it to the hospital alive I don't see how choking could have been the primary cause of death.
Terrible. Stupid. Didn't have to end this way.
Amazing all the teacher bashing and they are relying on an "anonymous" source.
This is about on the same level as an incident where a second or third grade girl got a drug record. A student on a school bus had a severe asthma attack, perhaps even anaphylactic (sp?) shock. The girl gave the student a hit off of her escape respirator. The physician at the ER said that was a life saver. Her reward - kicked out of school, arrested, drug record due to the zero tolerance policy.
What happened is his child tried to eat a hamburger too fast and wound up choking. That is the proximate cause of his death. The business with the cell phones and everything else has very little to do with it.
Perhaps if somebody had been trained in First Aid and been on the spot to render help, this child could have been saved. But if you are waiting 20 minutes for the ambulance to rescue a choking victim, they're going to be 15 minutes too late. Whether they get there is 20 or 22 minutes is irrelevant.
A book title of a few years ago covers DAMN NEAR ALL that goes on in this country, indeed, the WORLD today. The title? "THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE."
The other element that plays into this NEEDLESS TRAGEDY is my permutation of the Outback restaurant advertising motto of "No rules, just right." NO RIGHTS, JUST RULES!
I often wonder if the increasing stupidity and lack of discernment of more and more American people -- in this case, one of those among us who, as a TEACHER, is SUPPOSED to be better educated and perspicacious -- doesn't put us in jeopardy of repeating the disaster visited upon the world in the 30s when obedience to the RULES promulgated by their insane furher and his minions was more important than moral and ethical considerations. MILLIONS paid for THAT national lapse.
Speaking of titles, there is one famous song title that really ought to be changed to "God SAVE America."
This just high lights the utter uselessness of jr high and high school health curriculums.
At our local school they waste an entire semester droning about birth control and STDs.
In that same amount of time, students could have studied and received First Aid/CPR and Food Handlers certificates. Things that would actually improved their chances of summer employment.
It's just pathetic how they waste time, resources and peoples lives instead of adopting what should be an obvious training program for all 13-15 year olds.
If that were my son, the so-called teacher would have been knocked to the ground and then call would have been made.
Not that I am defending her negligent, ignorant actions, but the emotional torment she will face will certainly never end. I pity her, and pray for her along with the family.
I sent this article to my 15 year old grandson.
Prayers for Jesse and his family.
“Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.”— Kingsley Amis, Stanley and the Women.
As an aside, a surefire technique to ensure one receives simultaneous help from police, EMS, and firefighters is to simply pull the fire alarm in the school cafeteria. This will provide an accurate location to emergency responders without the potential "translational errors" of an excited student attempting to speak to an operator.
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