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

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Disgusting Texas.

[vlyons]

2. Good to know in a school shooting

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

[LoisB]

3. How about doing something about the main reason a 3rd grader would need to know how

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]

4. Beyond belief ....

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]

5. No bleeding control for most of the wounds caused by .223 fired by an AR Rifle

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]

10. Wrong.

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]

6. All this just so they can

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.

[Karadeniz]

7. Appalling...

[Demovictory9]

8. K&r

[ga_girl]

9. I've taken the Stop the Bleed course

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]

11. The headline of this OP

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.

[Hekate]

12. I may vomit

[Rebl2]

13. They have

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.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. It is tough living in Texas at times

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[ShazzieB]

15. I have a few choice words to say about this.

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.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. This is crazy even for Texas

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