Bill Would Require High School Students Learn CPR

High school students would be required to know how to perform CPR before they could graduate under legislation awaiting hearings in Michigan House and Senate committees.

Tyler Menhart, a junior at Northview High School in Grand Rapids, learned CPR while in the Boy Scouts and used it to save his friend when he stopped breathing as they two were running soccer drills last spring.

The 17-year-old Menhart says everyone should learn CPR because you never know when you’re going to be that one person in a crowd of 100 that knows how to do it.

According to the American Heart Association, for every minute the brain is deprived of oxygen a person’s chance of survival is lowered by 10 percent.