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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They just need a Wellness requirement that is worth 2 credits and is broken up as 1/2 a credit each year.  It would cover PE in 9th, Psychological in 10th, Financial in 11th,  Seminar Society and Culture.

This would cover all the things that students need to learn, force school to create quality 1/2 credit electives for students to explore in Junior/Senior year and likely help the stress and mental health of all students by providing them with a useful class that encourages dialogue, but that is not as intense as say AP whatever.[/quote]

Those may all be great, but when are they learning things like:

First Aid - the Heimlich, CPR, basic wound care, recognizing and treating frost bite and heat stroke, signs of a heart attack and stroke, what to do for someone going into shock, etc.

Nutrition - what specific vitamins and minerals do and what foods they’re found in, information on diseases caused by malnutrition, diabetes, safe food handling practices

Disease - types of diseases, how they’re transmitted, why vaccines are important, why antibiotics don’t cure everything[/quote]

These can all be  covered at a basic level between middle school health and the HS Wellness classes suggested as well as Biology.  Other places =CubScouts/Girls Scouts, AHA/Red Cross first aid and CPR class, Nutrition class, Health Science classes.[/quote]

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