First Aid Questionable at Canton

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For a school that claims student safety as one of its biggest priorities, it does not show in everyday life. For starters, there are only first aid kits in the rooms that the school thinks need one. All rooms should at least have a small first aid kit just in case.
There are no first aid kits in the cafeteria, and if someone were to bust his jaw open there, he should not have to walk all the way to the office to get something to help. It just seems impractical.

“I think that us not having first aid training is leaving us unprepared for if anything happens. We do not even have a nurse, the closest thing to a school nurse is Mrs. Suzanne with a pack of band-aids,” Braxton Thompson, junior, said.

The school does however have Automatic External Defibrillators which would be amazing if students were taught how to use them. If someone goes into cardiac arrest, the last thing they want to hear is “I think this is how you use it, it’s what Wikipedia said.”
At that point, the patient would just die, die because students were never given first aid training on what to do in situations like this.

The first and only time students are offered CPR training is when they become seniors. A school that has no school nurse fails to offer underclassmen a basic course in first aid.

For those people who argue that it is too expensive to offer first aid training to all the students. According to lessons.com it costs $50-$75 per student.

“I am looking at trying to offer these types of classes to juniors and seniors this year if I can make it work,” Jason Wallace, high school principal, said.