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struggle4progress

(118,338 posts) Thu Jul 26, 2012, 09:30 PM Jul 2012

Perdue signs bill that requires CPR training

Thursday, July 26, 2012

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina high school students will be required to learn CPR and the Heimlich maneuver before earning their diplomas starting in 2015.

Gov. Beverly Perdue signed into law Thursday a bill that requires students to show proficiency in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training before graduation. She says it's a way to save lives.

CPR training has been required for graduation since 1997, but it has not been enforced. The governor's office says North Carolina is one of five states with the requirement.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/26/4664501/perdue-signs-bill-that-requires.html

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Perdue signs bill that requires CPR training (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2012 OP

I think that's a great idea dballance Jul 2012 #1

dballance

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1. I think that's a great idea

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Thu Jul 26, 2012, 09:35 PM

Jul 2012

I wish they'd taught us CPR along side the gun safety courses they taught us. The courses where they actually handed us real rifles with live ammo so we could shoot clay pigeons in gym class. Yes, this was over 30 years ago. Times were way different.

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