Posted on 12/19/2011 12:50:28 PM PST by Altariel
NEW YORK -- Witnesses say a fourth-grade boy choked on meatballs during lunch in a New York City school cafeteria this month and later died.
The New York Post reports that 9-year-old Jonathan Jewth fell to the ground during lunch Dec. 5 and was unconscious before help arrived. They say cafeteria workers at Public School 47 in the Bronx didn't know what to do and failed to help him.
"I saw the boy start choking, but nobody was helping," Andrea Perez, 25, told the New York Post.
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This is sad and reminds me of the guy who drowned in Alameda when firefighters and cops watched, saying they were untrained.
Unions
Lawyers
Union Lawyers
Bureaucrats
Political correctness
Sensitivity training, not common sense, taught in public schools
Killed this kid.
Prayers to his family.
Here is some data on this 1200+ child school.
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/ny/other/2185#students
I clicked on the link... the boy was just beautiful. I just sent emails to my kids principals asking if cafeteria staff are trained in choking emergencies. I had just ASSUMED that with food and children.... duh, choking can happen.
So, the staff has no training for first aid.You forgot hours and hours of homosexual indoctrination training...
Betcha they’ve had hours and hours of training on searching for hidden crucifixes, drawings of guns, t-shirtswith conservative statements.
They also have bathroom duties to insure that cross gendered, nude, drug using, or smoking idiots have full rights to whatever part of whatever bathroom they desire.
Public schools suck.
Period.
Don’t know about New York, but in neighboring Pennsylvania there is no State requirement that school employees be certified in First Aid/CPR nor any funding for their training.
Now all school meals will be mechanically softened so they can drink them through a straw.
It is outrageous that no adults present had been trained in choking first aid, in a school cafeteria where choking is highly likely to occur. Someone more radical than I might call this school a "Death Trap". A 30 minute training session & some posters on the wall could have saved this child's life.
Teacher's unions like to boast about their highly educated members, yet they haven't bothered to spend 1/2 hour learning how to save someone who is in what should be MINOR distress.
No doubt EVERY school employee & student has been highly trained to put on a condom, with posters in every room demonstrating the technique. And, with all the Obama pictures, perhaps there is no room left for first aid posters.
I'd say the adults in that cafeteria had primary responsibility for the safety of the children. At least one must have had supervisory responsibility. Ignorance of the signs of choking & the very simple Heimlich Maneuver is real close to gross negligence, IMO, & especially so for a children's cafeteria. Kids choke on something all the time.
So, every adult present had a responsibility to get involved, whether they wanted to, or not. They also should have some basic first aid knowledge to supervise a cafeteria.
It is beyond comprehension that with all the highly trained professionals present (dripping sarc), this child died.
Too many people these days have a “not my problem” mentality.
I believe New York has a Good Samaritan law. The nearest adult ought to have stepped up to the plate.
I wonder how many parents will pull their kids from that school (either this year or next).
The school allowed one kid to choke to death without doing anything to attempt to save his life.
I bet more than a few parents imagined their own child choking in the cafeteria.
Median IQ of staff at that school was likely high 80s at bestt
Damned shame....poor feller
That girl was foolish, but your nephew did the right thing. I hope he knows that.
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