high school students should be required to take a basic medical class

1) Curriculum"All we would have to do is get the teachers cpr certified legally and the other medical directors at the school could teach the basics"Or hire ones that dont have the necessary skills or knowledge to teach the course,Or make room in a crammed budget to pay for all the teachers, books, material, and work needed to make this even feasibleOr figure out which rooms to put these classes into if there is any room at allOr figure out if all of this is even worth it. .. . "The major point is there is not going to be staggering cost to high schools to implement the proposal. .. .. most high schools already have basic medical classes. "Yeah, as an ELECTIVE COURSE. Medical classes are different from PE in that medical classes arent REQUIRED to take. Most high schools do have basic medical classes but you want to add material to them to have students know enough to save lives, make these classes mandatory for ALL students to take which is going to require a massive addition of these classes, teachers, books, material, etc. " if there is funding issues we can use the 800 billion dollars cut from Pakistan"Ok three things, 1) the US isnt cutting 800 billion in aid to Pakistan at all . http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com...2) Any funding that is cut would be minimal not all 800 billion3) The US isnt going to take that 800 billion and just dump it into education. .. .. Thats not how it worksBasics"but if very civilian knew some basic first aid being given from medical classes ,then citizens will have a much higher chance of being able to preserve that persons life until the paramedics arrive"If they decide to call the paramedics instead of trying to handle it themselves. .. . I asked this already the Pro never responded (see the text right above the picture)"because our education system will not b able to afford to train all high school students to do emergency surgery"That backs up my argument a bit about how our education system will not be able to afford to train all high school students to do anything medically advanced at all. .. .. Other initiatives" If they have the funds then why should it be a problem"Its that they DONT have the funds thats the problem. Theres nothing wrong with trying to teach students to be ready for anything but schools dont have the funding to teach them the basics about what is already being taught right now, so going on a campaign to have students prepare for just about anything raises questions since tight budgets may affect the quality of education being given or if the skills can be taught at all. Drug abuse" I have to admit that the possibility exists that a chemistry nerd like me may dig and find out how to do these dangerous things"Ok now think of this, if a smart chem student may look into how to use chemicals to make explosives, then what would stop a typical druggie from getting high on cheap pills after learning about how to buy cheap pills? "they are teaching the basics needed make drugs. .. .. .. .. .if you want to make the argument of the possibility of students learning how to make drugs . .. .. then your basicily arguing that chemistry and all medical classes should be done away with. "Nice try Pro, Chemistry serves a million other uses then drug making like basic atomic properties, neutrons, protons, earning about isotopes, how this ties to real world applications, how things react, why they react, how to tell if something reacts, how to classify atoms, how to identify atoms, etc. Basic pharmacology on the other hand introduces students to the very drugs they could get high off of for cheap prices, and the only thing the Pro has to respond to this is that these pharmacology programs will be similar to a workshop taught at Duke. This same workshop though in the link the Pro provided says that this program should NOT be implemented if high schools dont have the freedom in the curriculum to implement the program for schools wanting to make it an ELECTIVE, not a mandatory course. .. .On another note, a college isnt the best place to structure a program designed to NOT get kids to do drugs. Especially Duke who has their own history of drug problems in its student body. http://dukechronicle.com...Goal of this program"my opponent seems to think that shoppers who cant afford there medication and having the knowledge to buy generics is a bad thing. "You left out the part about how this is going to high school students, not people who actually buy their own medicine, along with the part about how having the knowledge to buy generics just as much as having the knowledge to buy cheap medicine to get high off of could ALSO be a bad thing. .. .. "the point of this proposal was to provide civilians with some basic first aid skills. .. Basic medical knowledge. .. .. . Preserve lives for a couple more seconds or minutes until the help arrives. .. .. .. . Help some people avoid expensive medication and have the knowledge to buy generics by learning basic over the counter drug knowledge"There are many problems with this proposal (in order of importance)A) It would be a nightmare to reorganize every school program so that ALL students would take these course, if it could be implemented at allB) It would put a monstrous burden on school budgets that the government is already trying to make smallerC) If it was implemented the funding could cause the education being given to students to be sub-standardD) It would not be 100% effective if the students get scared or try to handle a crisis themselves instead of actually getting helpE) With prescription drugs being abused by high schoolers, teaching kids how to exploit both the drugs and the cost would cause a catastrophic rise in drug usage. F) The Teachers, material, books, etc needed to carry out this course would be elaborate and expensive before the program can even get started.