This bill is a shame. As if our school districts aren’t already reeling to keep up with mandates under strained budgets.
Of the 49.6 million school age children in the US, according to the article, 22 thousand experience a cardiac arrest while away from a medical facility. That’s less than a half of one percent of children.
This plan would require the district to have a designated cardiac emergency response team. Those teams would, as the bill is written, be required to do a simulation 30 days before the school year begins. Coaches would also have to be CPR and automated external defibrillator trained.
It feels like a lawmaker trying to get a bill passed more than a community need clamoring for attention. Feels like a resume builder.
And yet time, regulation and responsibility is going to be mandated down across 331 school districts in MN. It turns educators into medical care providers.
The bill would also require schools to make response plans available and accessible both on the school website and in paper form. It proposes offering $3 million to schools to assist and fund these efforts.
This bill shouldn’t pass the use of public funds and efforts efficiency test.
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