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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,988 posts)
Mon May 1, 2023, 12:46 PM May 2023

Our district canceled sex ed classes but is now required to offer kids training in bleeding control

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

In case you're wondering how things are going in Texas, our district canceled all sex ed classes this year but is now required to offer kids training in bleeding control techniques, including "tourniquets approved for use in battlefield trauma care by the armed forces."

Our district is offering the training right now for middle schoolers and up but looks like the Texas bill is amending it to 3rd graders and up.

legiscan.com
Texas HB1147 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature
Bill Text (2023-03-13) Relating to the regulation of bleeding control stations in public schools. [Left



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Our district canceled sex ed classes but is now required to offer kids training in bleeding control (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
Disgusting Texas. sinkingfeeling May 2023 #1
Good to know in a school shooting vlyons May 2023 #2
How about doing something about the main reason a 3rd grader would need to know how LoisB May 2023 #3
Beyond belief .... anciano May 2023 #4
No bleeding control for most of the wounds caused by .223 fired by an AR Rifle Botany May 2023 #5
Wrong. James48 May 2023 #10
All this just so they can slightlv May 2023 #6
Appalling... Karadeniz May 2023 #7
K&r Demovictory9 May 2023 #8
I've taken the Stop the Bleed course ga_girl May 2023 #9
The headline of this OP SCantiGOP May 2023 #11
I may vomit Hekate May 2023 #12
They have Rebl2 May 2023 #13
It is tough living in Texas at times LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #14
I have a few choice words to say about this. ShazzieB May 2023 #15
This is crazy even for Texas LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #16

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. Good to know in a school shooting
Mon May 1, 2023, 01:04 PM
May 2023

But telling 10 yr old girls about menstruation, how babies are made, STDs, etc -- eh not so much.

LoisB

(8,687 posts)
3. How about doing something about the main reason a 3rd grader would need to know how
Mon May 1, 2023, 01:11 PM
May 2023

to stop his friend from bleeding to death? And I don't mean falling off the jungle gym or getting hit with a baseball.

anciano

(1,533 posts)
4. Beyond belief ....
Mon May 1, 2023, 01:28 PM
May 2023

And this is from the same "Abbott and associates" whose solution for gun violence in schools after the Uvalde incident was to send DNA testing kits to parents. I won't comment any further as I am trying to minimize my profanity....



Botany

(72,494 posts)
5. No bleeding control for most of the wounds caused by .223 fired by an AR Rifle
Mon May 1, 2023, 01:56 PM
May 2023

The bullet is made to tumble after it strikes somebody causing massive trauma to the
victim. It can all but blow your leg off with one round.

This is madness pure madness.

James48

(4,598 posts)
10. Wrong.
Mon May 1, 2023, 03:09 PM
May 2023

The idea that .223 bullets “tumble” any more or any less than other bullets is simply an old wives tale. They don’t tumble.

They do, however, make massive wounds that can cause severe damage. It’s from the energy, not the tumble.

History of the false notion that .223 (5.56mm) bullets “tumble”

https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-rumor-start-about-the-5-56-mm-rifle-bullet-tumbling-through-the-air-If-it-tumbled-how-could-it-be-accurate-I-believe-the-M-16-variants-are-effective-to-550-yards-with-a-tumbling-bullet

slightlv

(4,341 posts)
6. All this just so they can
Mon May 1, 2023, 02:08 PM
May 2023

1. Control girl's and women's bodies
2. Close public school systems
3. Dominate everyone who isn't white male christofascist.

I hate Republicans.

ga_girl

(198 posts)
9. I've taken the Stop the Bleed course
Mon May 1, 2023, 02:33 PM
May 2023

There is no way on Earth that a 9 year old should be subjected to this subject matter. It was tough enough as a grown adult and presented in the situation such as an automobile collision with injuries.

Having said that, the course rates up there with CPR training. I bought one of the kits and it's in my car.

https://www.stopthebleed.org/

ETA: Texas already has a stop the bleed requirement in schools, but for adults and OFFERED to 7th graders.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/01/07/new-texas-law-requires-school-districts-to-offer-stop-the-bleed-training-to-7th-graders-and-above/

SCantiGOP

(14,248 posts)
11. The headline of this OP
Mon May 1, 2023, 03:18 PM
May 2023

Is a perfect one sentence depiction of where the Republican Party is today.
I think most voters are less concerned with sex than they are with murdered children.

Rebl2

(14,715 posts)
13. They have
Mon May 1, 2023, 03:38 PM
May 2023

lost their minds requiring a 3rd grader to take this. They should have to get permission from the parents and the child. I am sure they would have to get permission from parent on sex education and same should go for this.

ShazzieB

(18,688 posts)
15. I have a few choice words to say about this.
Mon May 1, 2023, 03:49 PM
May 2023

1. GREG ABBOTT IS A SICK FUCK!
2. Every Republican in the TX statehouse and other branches of the TX state government is a SICK FUCK.
3. Everyone involved in deciding that teaching children how to stop massive bleeding is an appropriate response to school shootings is a PROFOUNDLY SICK FUCK.
4. Greg Abbott is THE SICKEST FUCK OF ALL THE SICK FUCKS IN TEXAS.






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