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Binmen are English Rubbish /Garbage Collectors
Binmen could give life-saving treatment to heart attack patients in a rural area of England.
Crews would carry defibrillators, machines which give electric shocks, under the plan being considered by Staffordshire Moorlands Council.

The scheme, backed by the ambulance service, has been proposed as using a defibrillator within four minutes of a heart attack increases survival by 80%.

Council leader Ron Locker said it was a great idea and could save lives.
Rural area
''The binmen are very much up for the idea. It is a rural area and, therefore, it is not always possible for ambulance crews to reach patients within four minutes.

''This could make a real difference. We would obviously give them training.''

The plan is set to come before councillors at a meeting in March and, if they agree to it, some of the council's 20 binmen crews could start carrying the machines within a year.

The council has already introduced the machines in its three one-stop shops - although staff have not had to use them yet.

The machines, which cost ?£1,200 - a price which includes training for six people - are all pre-programmed and take the user through what to do step-by-step.

Bob Lee, of Staffordshire Ambulance Service, described it as a ''wonderful, wonderful'' idea.

''No ambulance service in the world can serve such a large area as we cover within four minutes so if binmen are on hand they could prove a great asset.

''I would point out that we are not replacing ambulance crews with binmen.

''People should not be worried. The machines are automatic, they do all the work, including testing whether an electric shock is necessary too.''

Katharine Peel, head of emergency life support at the British Heart Foundation, said reaching heart attack patients within four minutes can be a problem in remote areas.
''We believe the more access people have to this vital life-saving equipment the better.
''Everyone already relies on binmen - up at dawn to clear our rubbish, keeping our streets clean.

''We strongly support the initiative in Leek, which will give binmen the chance to be lifesavers in more ways than one.''


By Why not try it here

Why Can't Johnny Add?


Why Can't Johnny Add?
Schoolkids in Newton, a Boston suburb, aren't measuring up in math tests, writes Tom Mountain in the Newton Tab. Thirty-two percent of sixth-graders are in the ''warning'' or ''needs improvement'' category in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, and school officials are flummoxed:

The school department offered no tangible explanation for these declining scores other than to admit that they have no explanation, as articulated by Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Carolyn Wyatt (salary $106,804), ''[The results] have decreased, incrementally, each year and continue to puzzle us.'' She went on to admit that this downward trend is peculiar to Newton and ''is not being seen statewide.'' Again, she offered no explanation, but she did assure the School Committee that her assistant, Math Coordinator Mary Eich (salary $101,399), is currently investigating the problem.

But according to Mountain, it turns out that between 1999 and 2001, Newton adopted an ''anti-racist multicultural math'' curriculum:

In 2001 [Superintendent Jeffrey] Young, Mrs. Wyatt and an assortment of other well-paid school administrators, defined the new number-one priority for teaching mathematics, as documented in the curriculum benchmarks, ''Respect for Human Differences--students will live out the system wide core of 'Respect for Human Differences' by demonstrating anti-racist/anti-bias behaviors.''

It continues, ''Students will: Consistently analyze their experiences and the curriculum for bias and discrimination; Take effective anti-bias action when bias or discrimination is identified; Work with people of different backgrounds and tell how the experience affected them; Demonstrate how their membership in different groups has advantages and disadvantages that affect how they see the world and the way they are perceived by others . . .'' It goes on and on.

''Nowhere among the first priorities for the math curriculum guidelines is the actual teaching of math,'' Mountain observes. ''That's a distant second.'' It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out why Newton's kids are falling behind.



By THESE PEOPLE ARE TEACHERS

In Other Words,

Newton practices diversity. Maths not important to these people, diversity is. When these young people go off to college, they can't do the work. They can't function in society because they don't have the tools. Maybe a little less diversity and a little more math,science, and english would be a better plan.

By TMM

Not only that,look at the

Money they make to screw up these little kids for the rest of their
lives. These p. c. creatures are everywhere and they infest every school system in America.

They are the greatest threat to America?’s future and should be forbidden form teaching in our schools!!

Read the writeup about the ACLU for the source of p c crap, Joe Mc Carthy was correct about communistic infiltration, he should have concentrated on the school teachers and college professors instead of HOLLYWOOD!

By Your future belongs to us