Bold Proposal: Privatize Driver’s Ed
Think about it.
That’s how they do it in Europe and the driving instruction is much better. Plus it would free up that money for teaching legitimate subjects and free up an extra period each day for students to take something valuable like music or French.
In school driver’s ed is a scam I say take out the garbage.
I’m going to say no Jason…
Then only the rich kids get driver’s education when it’s the poor kids who need the car to get to an after school job.
But if you take Driver’s Ed out of school, they won’t be able to pay the football coach a teaching salary! At least that’s how they did it at my high school.
French useful? I had three years of it and the only thing I remember is how to kiss that way.
Good points. What about this – outsource health class along with the drivers ed, provide vouchers and if students can’t describe how one can have sex with making babies – no license.
Where I grew up, there hadn’t been drivers ed in the schools for years. My parents made me pay for it out of my own after school job. We all found the money some how and gave up our Saturday mornings…
Our gym teacher taught drivers ed and sold car insurance on the side; guess who passed?
Can we have used car salesmen teach them?
I’m pretty sure driver’s ed was private on Long Island. I guess it’s a good thing the NY metro area has a good enough public transportation system to support people who can afford neither a car nor the class. Might not be a good idea around here.
You could go really old-school on the privatization front and let parents teach their young’uns how to drive if that is what they want.
I went to Catholic high school (except my last year) so there was no driver’s ed. I paid for a course one summer. But the most fun driving school I ever had was my dad teaching me to drive a manual shift car after I decided to buy one. (This would not have been nearly as much fun for the initial driver training, I don’t think.)
Oh My.
My Dad tried to teach my sister how to drive a manual shift once.
It is a miracle that you and your father are still on speaking terms.
We did this after (Baltimore!) rush hour; he was in the passenger seat with a six-pack of beer; running me through the obstacle course of my life. We laughed and laughed and laughed all the way through. He did the same for my brother — we called it Dad Marshall’s Jivin’and Drivin’ School.
And — I have always owned manual shift cars ever since.
A manual transmission shows true character. No wonder you’re a Democrat.