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

I admire the proposal made by the Pro, however I see a lot of flaws in this proposal which is why I accepted this debate. "proposal: students should required to graduate with basic first aid,and over the counter drug knowledge."If we require students to get basic first aid and over the counter medication training then we would have to fit that course into an already crammed curriculum students deal with in High school, and the teachers needed to teach the course, materials needed for it, etc would be a burden on school budgets. If schools try to cut their budgets and cut funding from these med classes it could cause the level of education to become so sub-standard that it may cause students to do more harm then good when the situation comes. "civilians can increase there chances of survival if they know basic first aid."They can also do quite a bit of harm though. Think about it if a student knows basic medical training and when helping a person has a choice between trying to be a hero and actually calling for help, that person might put the victims life on the line for a shot of being a hero...................... It would be sort of like a little kid in a weight training class trying to lift a heavy thing off of someone because they think they can pull it off instead of calling someone to do it for them who is way more experienced and qualified..................... (I apologize for the F word being in there but I couldnt find a different picture of a baby trying to lift a ridiculously large amount)Point is medical training could cause harm if it empowers students to become cocky enough to try to fix it themselves rather than call a professional and just try to but time until they show up. "If a person knows to stop the bleeding then they wont bleed to death by the time paramedics get there."Just how serious medical training are we talking about him? I could under stand maybe a broken bone or some burns but stopping lethal blood loss sounds like something that no student could learn in one class in one year...." How can a person help if they don't know what to do."Should we also teach kids how to be firefighters in case of a fire or detectives to find criminals too? Its a noble idea dont get me wrong but this might be a tipping point to try to teach students to learn to fix anything, and that would be a hopeless battle for our underfunded school system to handle. "Basic pharmacology should also be introduced."Pharmacology: The study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function First off, I dont think we should be telling high school students anything about prescription medicine and over-the-counter drugs since theres a growing trend about high school students using those same things to get high. http://www.health.ny.gov...http://seattletimes.nwsource.com...http://www.life123.com...http://www.reuters.com...http://www.momlogic.com...http://zev.hubpages.com...http://www.fox16.com...http://www.infowars.com...http://www.talkaboutrx.org...http://www.drugrehabtreatment.com...Im not trying to saturate this debate with sources, prescription drug abuse is a SERIOUS problem among high schools, and I dont think its good to give kids a COURSE about drugs they could then use to get stoned on...."if students are required to learn basic over the counter drug skills then we could save lots of money"Wait a sec, wait a sec............ I thought the goal here was to help students save lives not become savvy shoppers..... I for one dont think we should put a larger burden on schools just to help students be saavy shoppers when it comes down to prescription drugs they could get high off of...