What a sad outcome :( Second one in what, a week?

Motorcycle accident. Looks like the driver of the motorcycle was taken away in an ambulance in serious condition and then someone else from an SUV sustained injuries. News and reports don’t say much more than that so far.

There are a few different ones, although she may be too young, I think most of them are 11 and up.

Cox Health does this one for $15:

https://www.coxhealth.com/events/babysitting-basics/

CPR Services of the Ozarks mostly does certification classes, for a variety of careers and costs. They do offer this one as a NON certification course:

Family and Friends CPR $25

Non-certification course for those wanting to learn adult, child, infant CPR and choking management of the conscious and unconscious. NOT A CERTIFICATION- granting course

https://cprservicesoftheozarks.com/classes-1

The YMCA also used to have them, they were long like 6-8 hour classes for kids 11-14 but then each location would have their own guidelines and a lot of them let kids as young as 9 attend. I am not seeing where Springfield Y’s have started back up, but you could always call. I believe their classes were based on Safe Sitter, which also has virtual classes.

https://safesitter.org

We’re out in Clever. On the FB post yesterday announcing AMI for today the very first comment is “what a crock of shit”.

Ah I see. We are in Clever and it always shocks people when I say one of the kindergarten teachers has her doctorate in education and a ton of them have Masters degrees as well.

I guess they think the whole school/area is a bunch of “country bumpkins” who only travel by tractor or something.

That being said, I am not from here originally. My husband grew up in Bolivar but I grew up in Hawaii so my school experience was different.

The small towns do have a very welcoming sense of community but I do feel sometimes it is on the surface. We have had several school functions where it seems every knows everyone, they all went to school together and while I don’t know that they mean to, sometimes it does seem like they are all in a group facing inward talking. Not exactly welcoming to “outsiders”. I am a pretty big introvert though and our kids are NOT lol. So the kids seem to still have 0 issues, despite us knowing almost no one here.

What small rural area/school? You may be surprised by some of the schools in the smaller cities surrounding the area