My husband had to take a class to learn how best to help his father get out of bed and into a wheel chair. There are things to learn I'm sure but my understanding CPR in a bed is not one of them.
ETA - This was training my husband how not to hurt himself among other things.
The bed wasn't used to teach CPR. I think there's a few things that need to be cleared up. This was a Health Science teacher, not a CPR teacher and he taught more to the students than simply CPR. Health Science, the way they had it set up at Culleoka, was to prepare students who wanted to further their education in the field of Health Science. What does that mean? What kind of jobs? Those jobs would be Nurses, Paramedics, Phlebotomists, Certified Nursing Assistants, and other jobs within the health care related field like maybe even a Doctor, or Surgeon, or Anaesthesiologist or Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy or Occupational Rehab. This program he was was part of in the Vocational Technical side of the school was for Health Sciences, and the appropriate subsections of Health Science. The class he was teaching in which ET met him was a Forensics class, science based which included things like how to follow proper protocol when obtaining evidence, marking evidence, testing of evidence, etc. It may have even included a little bit about entymology (study of bugs) and how it relates to a crime scene. Usually classes like this are taught in modular form, rather than with a book and it's done in projects rather than tests, which puts the skills to use in solving mock crimes. Now along with the Forensics class he taught classes that prepare people for work within the health care industry and it's completely natural to have a bed in the class so you can teach how to make the beds with flat sheets, or how to transport patients between a bed and a wheelchair, lifting, positioning, how to change a bed with a patient still in the bed, how to work the mechanisms of the bed, patient transportation in the bed, how to do vitals on a patient in a bed, etc. He most likely had stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, he might have even had insulin syringes and saline bottles (some high schools will teach how to give shots and how to draw up solutions out of a bottle), and none of these things are considered odd That he let a student sleep in the bed occasionally? That might give me pause if I were an admin, but then again it might not if the door is open, other students are milling around and the student sleeping isn't feeling well or is having housing issues, but I would most likely support the teacher to send the student to the nurses office just as a cya move.
Another thing bandied about is the certification. Every state, not just TN, but every state has alternative methods of certification. Every one. All of them. So at any given time you will have people within the system that have not had the traditional BS in Ed, student teaching certification. In one school we have a retired Judge teaching Civics and Constitutional Law, trust me he's more than qualified to teach the material. And qualifications aside, TC's lack of the traditional method of receiving his certification was no omen for the school that he would later become obsessed with a female child in his class and abduct her.
So does the school have culpability in this? Yes. If it were me, once the child is safely back in the home I'd hit them with a Federal suit, throw it all against the wall and let the Judge figure out what he wants to find them guilty of. I go after every teacher in that school who knew there were inappropriate actions going on and did nothing while they called a child a homewrecker. I go after the Principal, the Superintendent and heck why not the State Board as well who allowed him to continue in that school after he was warned and continued his relationship with this child. I'd go after their pensions, their homes and any other assets they had personally and make sure that they also had to publicly flog themselves in the court of public opinion by writing an op ed piece about how they failed the community. I might stop short of tar and feathering, but I then again I might not. But in so much as allowing him to teach in that school, I feel the school has no blame in hiring him.
