FLORENCE, S.C. — Southside Middle School students spent the day Friday learning lessons of personal responsibility and safety — and did so with some outside help.
Air Reach — an aero ambulance — flew onto the school’s baseball field to show off the helicopter, gear and mission it serves in the Pee Dee. Flight nurse Jennifer Gray talked to the students about jobs onboard the helicopter and what the students would need to study and do to qualify for one of the positions.
The event was part of the school’s Ghost Out day when teachers work to bring awareness of safety to students and instill in them that accidents are the number one killer of teens.
Toward that end several students wore “tombstone” signs around their neck, denoting that they had died at the hands of a drunken driver, drugged driver or someone who was texting behind the wheel.
At a later assembly those students would highlight the dangers and the need for students to make good decisions, said health teacher Michelle Hayes.
“This is a great opportunity to let people to know that it’s not right for people to lose their lives over other people’s messed-up decisions,” said Kennedy Gray, student and daughter of flight nurse Jennifer Gray. “Why should a text message or a drink or a drug be more important than somebody’s life?”
“We want them to know that life isn’t guaranteed and we want them to make good decisions,” Hayes said.
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