FIRST AID SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS.

To prove I can get serious and talk about other things besides blindness and guide dogs here’s something I’ve thought for years and which I’d like to get off my chest.

I reckon I’m entitled to a weekly rant and this one concerns the teaching of first aid in schools. Within the first minutes following a person’s heart attack or accident, what is done and not done can make the difference between them living or dying and/or making a full recovery. That’s why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing but a lot of knowledge and more importantly the right as opposed to the wrong knowledge picked up from old wives’ tales and silly ideas like not bathing during a woman’s periods would cut the death rate and reduce the serious disability statistics.

We’re busy stuffing our children’s heads with politically correct nonsense and teaching them how to become “mummies” and “daddies” before they’ve finished being children but if we really did teach them something useful wouldn’t that be good? This isn’t to say sex education isn’t useful but once we’ve learned how to get people born into this already over populated world wouldn’t it be nice to keep them alive once here?

In Britain, where I am, to my certain knowledge first aid is not taught in schools. There have been programmes on tv about it but nobody is obliged to watch TV whereas one is obliged to attend school though many truant. So folks, especially those in the U.K. harrass your MP and make them pass laws designed to educate our children in what really matters instead of a load of old tripe that doesn’t. Feeling better now? Well I do have crushing chest pain but that’s as a result of indigestion. How do I know? I don’t which is why I needed to learn first aid at school.