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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish health b taught CPR and First Aid. You know, something useful. [/quote]

If Health B students could graduate the class with an optional CPR certification, that would be so useful! My son did that at summer camp in 8th grade.

Also maybe home safety, such as checking your home's CO detector, how to touch someone who just got electrocuted before doing CPR, why you can't shelter under a tree in a storm, what not to put in a microwave, etc... I had a little Usborne book about survival skills as a child in the UK, and it had all these things in it (also a large section on survival in the wild). [/quote]

Yeah, there is probably a way they could make it useful but they haven’t done that.  I took it by correspondence course from BYU and it was an intro level class for nursing students.  It covered a lot of really interesting stuff including basic first aid, how to read a CBC and what all those different tests mean.  They could talk about what cancer screens are done and why, and even the debates about whether to screen at 40 or 45 or 50.  They could talk about different methods in drug addiction treatment, why they are so challenging, and why they fail so often.
But no one bothered to develop that class.[/quote]

They don’t have to “develop” that class.  Back in the 80s, my required health class covered:
sex ed
drug/alcohol information
CPR (we were all certified)
the Heimlich
first aid
nutrition (what purpose various vitamins and minerals had, and diseases caused by nutritional diseases)
an overview of general diseases/health conditions (signs of melanoma, stroke, etc.)
disease transmission (vaccinations, hygiene, parasites, etc.)
basic anatomy/functioning of organ systems
etc.

MCPS doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel.  Find someone, somewhere, doing something that works and do what they do.  I know a lot of people seem to think textbooks (like we had in my ‘80s class) are passé, but the delivery method doesn’t matter, as long as you are transmitting CONTENT.  I don’t care if it’s a print textbook, an ebook, an app, a website, etc., just stop using our kids as guinea pigs and use something that’s already been effective at teaching kids something substantive.  
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