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Schools on the Honor System

In seconds, a teenage athlete's heart stopped beating. In seconds, a nurse-coach's hands saved her life. This story examines sudden cardiac arrest—a condition that claims 2,000 young lives annually in America, often without warning—and how one state is transforming its response. When 14-year-old Alyssa Atkinson collapsed during track practice in Michigan, the trained response of her coaches became the difference between survival and tragedy. But her case exposed a critical gap: many schools possessed the knowledge and equipment to save lives, yet lacked the formal systems to deploy them in a crisis. This reporting reveals how Governor Gretchen Whitmer's 2024 cardiac emergency response law—inspired by Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's on-field cardiac arrest—is transforming school safety protocols across the nation. Alyssa's survival story demonstrates the law's impact in practice. We follow Superintendent Brady Cook, who survived cardiac arrest twice and shared surveillance footage of his own collapse to underscore urgency. His personal experience as both survivor and administrator illuminates why formal preparedness matters. Through medical experts, survivors, and policymakers, this story reveals that while cardiac emergency response plans represent genuine progress, they are only as effective as the awareness and preparation behind them. It's an accountability piece that holds schools and systems responsible for protecting the lives in their care—and celebrates those who stepped up when seconds mattered most.