lmmomSD wrote:Oh, I don't think she was lying or _trying_ to misrepresent. I put it badly. And as far as looking up the certification, people here look up facts about them all the time. Someone just posted where she. went to college. People look up their contractor, all kinds of things. I wanted to know if she really was an EMT, because they are vague about what she did. Saying you're an EMT implies certification to me. Not just taking the course. That's a semantic difference that matters to me, because I know how hard it is to have the certification. You don't say you were a doctor if you didn't pass your MD. You don't call yourself a lawyer if you haven't passed the bar. And you don't say you were an EMT if you weren't certified. Am I the only one who thinks that way?
I did put it badly, in that I don't think that they're trying to purposely be misleading. I just think that the Griffiths throw terms around that aren't accurate, because they don't understand the effort involved. Like the way Ellie says "We were in college", when she wasn't. She was just living in married housing with Jared. And comparing the hours needed to get a cosmetology license vs an EMT sounded like a put down. Sorry if you didn't mean it that way, but it got my hackles up. EMT's save lives. Every day. I don't know why there's so many more hours required to be a cosmetologist, but it doesn't make sense. I honestly think she thinks that if she passed CPR and/or basic first aid, it means she's an EMT.
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I didn't mention the 2000 hrs to dismiss EMT training. You said yourself that your son has years of training! I was pointing out that in UT... where they live and where this matters, EMT CAN mean a simple one month course. Its likely very different, but the term is relevant to where she lives.
This is a UT vs CA issue. Not a Bonnie vs REMT issue.
I wasn't intending to offend your son at all, just as I doubt Bonnie was intending to imply she was a paramedic.
Like I said before, I feel this is grasping at straws. She did do a form of first aid training, and its entirely possible it was the EMT technician course. Ellie did NOT go to college when Jared did in any capacity. Totally different.
UT certification expires, and its entirely likely Bonnie's has lapsed, so IMO her name not being listed doesn't really mean anything. Her cosmetology license will lapse in Sept, but she will still have been a Cosmetologist.