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

1. Curriculum.....I'm pretty sure all high schools in America has a health and fitness class( because its a graduation requirement) .....but most schools in America has medical courses already in action. It seems my opponent missed my point being: even your health and P.E class could be the absolute bare minimum of a medical program. 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 teachers can learn the info over the summer and take a test in witch schools already implement )......were not going to be teaching these students complex procedures......its going to be simple things like holding pressure on wounds witch will massively increase the likelihood of that injured person of surviving until paramedics arrive on the scene. witch would be all that the health teachers would have to learn if they already didn't already Know.....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. Also I want to add on that if there is funding issues we can use the 800 billion dollars cut from Pakistan just recently to fund implementation witch shouldn't cost much of anything to the department of education or high schools.2.Basics...... judging by the way he wrote this section it seems my opponent thinks that the basics aren't enough to save lives....,,,,the fact of the matter is not every civilian is going to know how to do brain surgery........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 no mater how little it may be the action may preserve that persons life a few seconds or a few minutes longer until more advanced help arrives. So yes only basics will b taught....because our education system will not b able to afford to train all high school students to do emergency surgery. and they absolutely shoudnt be teaching that level of skill to high school students.3.Other initiatives.......high schools offer many other programs to witch high school students would benefit.......and are you suggesting that high schools shouldn't have the many programs they already do? its completely up to the department of education and the schools of witch programs they ought to have. If they have the funds then why should it be a problem. Now going into the question my opponent asked witch was ...."then why are we not trying to give them different skills to help people too".........there are many different skills taught in high school that benefits the students and society......and it would benefit society even more if students were trained to deliver some basic aid to preserve life's longer4. Drug abuse....I completely understand the position taken by my opponent here but he fails to realise that chemistry programs propose the same risks of drug abuse as chemistry classes.......my opponent states chemistry classes don't teach kids to make meth.....that is true. but the class does provide the knowledge to balance equations to bind chemicals, compound them, and synthesise them. My opponent also states that chemistry classes doesn't let the kids handle anything either remotely dangerous. that is completely false......just last week I was allowed to mix ammonium nitrate zinc and hydrochloric acid to make a chemical fire.......and if you didn't know ammonium nitrate is a key ingredient to making ammonol bombs witch are highly explosive....oh and by the way hydrochloric acid burns the skin if its manages to contact the skin witch is highly unlikely due to safety equipment. though students aren't taught how to make ammonol bombs your still messing with the same stuff in the labs to make it.....the only difference is that teachers aren't teaching how to make drugs or dangerous bombs.....yes 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,The teachers aren't teaching it. but 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.also I want to make the point that if pharmacology was introduced it would mirror the high school pharmacology program that due offers co-operative to high schools( link below)http://www.rise.duke.edu...5. goal of this programin response to my opponents question....."My question was whether or not this program was being introduced to give people the knowledge to help people in need, or to help people save money." my awnser is both.my opponent seems to think that shoppers who cant afford there medication and having the knowledge to buy generics is a bad thing.the point of this proposal was to provide civilians with some basic first aid skills and some basic medical knowledge to be able to help those in need around them......to preserve lives for a couple more seconds or minutes until the emt arrives........also to help some people avoid expensive medication and have the knowledge to buy generics by learning basic over the counter drug knowledge to be able to buy another over the counter medicine witch they can afford.