SCREENINGS and OTHER SERVICES
VISION
Grades Kindergarten, 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10, and new students to our corporation are screened each year. Local optometrists screen Grades Kindergarten, 1 and 3. Our staff screen other students. We also screen referrals from teachers or parents as needed.
HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS
All students in elementary grades are screened in the fall and spring by our staff. At Benjamin Rush Middle School the Physical Education teachers weigh and measure students. The nurse then records these on the student's record.
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
The American Heart Association's Heartsaver for Schools Adult and Children curriculum is taught to 8th graders. In the Advanced Health Issues class First Aid CPR/AED is taught. First Aid CPR/AED instruction is offered to all staff on a regular basis. There are AEDs in the High School Gymnasium, outside the counselor's office at RCHS, and at RES.
FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
Family Life is offered in fifth grade. Creating Positive Relationships, Inc. is offered to sixth, seventh, eighth grade classes and in the interpersonal relationship classes at the high school. Melissa Marlow, Debbie Alspaugh, Angie Kuhn, Bonnie Ford, Heidi Cox, Joyce Darnell, Bruce Lord, Heidi Clemmons, Anna Jo Richards, Jean Kopf, Lana Dillon, Carol Holzback, Anne Zachery, Mary Byrne, Jeanne Delbridge, Gay Fordice, Shawn Frakes, Matt Colvin, Margaret McCarty and Cheryl Miller are certified as instructors. All family life class materials are available for parent preview.
TAR WARS
Tar Wars, a program sponsored by the Academy of Family Physicians, is taught to all fifth grade classes during January and February. The program is designed to discourage youth from using tobacco products. Each student is encouraged to participate in the poster contest. Winning posters from each school are sent to the State for possible prizes. Arlington student Jacob Walters won the state poster contest in 2005.
OTHER HEALTH EDUCATION
Our staff does other classroom health instruction on a per request basis. Types of instruction include handwashing, nutrition, and hygiene. We provide the bloodborne pathogens inservice for staff each year. Character education is provided to all students by the county health nurses in their buildings.