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The fact that there's this big campain going on in the UK at the moment, about whether sex education should or shouldn't be taught in schools. I agree that it should be taught and that it IS importan, but tbh I also think that classes should be made to take CPR and emergency health classes at least once annually. I mean, if someone just stopped breathing I wouldn't really know wtf to do and how to do CPR. I was last taught it in like Year 6 or 7. (Yeah, I had this dream last night: I was walking with a friend, crossing a road, but he got run over and I didn't know what to do and was in hysterics. I mean, what are you actually supposed to do and in what order?! call an ambulance, CPR if not breathing? what if the victim has broken bones? should we move the person out of the road onto the pavement?!) 
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the average person might have to perform CPR once or twice in their lifetime, but theyll have sex hundreds of thousands of times
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Quote: from marshmellowman at 4:16 pm on Nov. 7, 2009
 I kinda agree with you, but tbh I'd rather have a competent adult attempt CPR than a child that 'had a class in it' and doesn't exactly remember what to do. Not to mention that it's important to use a good amount of force, and children may not have that or be scared to use as much force as necessary. Without that you won't get a great deal of air movement and as such it may be useless. Teachers are no doubt trained (or should be if they're not) and there will be someone in the school who knows some sort of first aid. All that said, it's just not likely that one will need to use it anyway. Is it nice? Sure, but I don't think it's *that* necessary. 
yeah, but what if the 2 people are alone and there is no time to get adult help etc. and my PSHCE lessons are supposed to include this topic, but instead we're learning about other things, half of which are absolute crap, I mean mortgages and bank statements, I understand how they can be regarded as significant for young adults, but I don't get it still, I don't plan to have my own money til I'm 18 and when i do, I could just ask my parents to explain the whole system or speak to a financial adviser in banks. and government systems, like voting etc, sure they're important, but I'm sure someone can explain it to you personally if it's really that necessary to know, and the government must have leaflets or websites which give you instructions on what to do :/
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Quote: from yyyt at 4:20 pm on Nov. 7, 2009
yeah, but what if the 2 people are alone and there is no time to get adult help etc.
in a school environment that is highly unlikely to happen. there's usually a teacher within a short amount of distance, and even without that the student can shout for help, or use their phone (which in this day and age are quite likely to have on them). Teaching CPR is something that can't just be done by anyone, because in order to have legal coverage you need to be qualified, and doing that to a whole heap of students is expensive and unproductive when you consider how unlikely it is that they're going to use it. If you just teach students without the necessary course and qualification, if they practice it on someone and use it incorrectly or cause damage they can be legally prosecuted and no-one would want that (and it doesn't matter if they intended to help or not). Is it nice? Yeah, but I don't see it being absolutely necessary. Students are hundreds of times more likely to engage in sexually deviant behaviour than need to use CPR, so teaching appropriate safe sex methods is crucial in keeping their own health up as well as stopping the spread of sexually transmitted infections. As for politics I personally think that is very important. So few are actually clued up on politics when they're voting, and more often than not it's just a matter of who appeals best to them without having that much knowledge. I don't know about you but I find that very frightening when the public gets to decide what is done with this country (and locally) they can easily be misinformed. I'm sure the government does have leaflets and websites, but unless a student is interested they won't know about it (and those students will most likely know about it anyway). The point is to educate all students just at the very basic level so they at least have some sort of knowledge about what and who they're voting for/about.
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