We Need Driver’s Ed
September 18, 2018
Driver’s ed is often extremely costly and can sometimes be out of range. For some students they may not even have a car to practice driving in. Others may not have a safe driver to shadow and learn from around them.
I took Driver’s Ed my sophomore year at my old school in Illinois. My mom paid 250 dollars for the class and 20 dollars to go to the DMV. The 20 dollars was sent to cover the cost of my first driver’s license. We had a semester long class and a rotation. The rotation told us who would be driving outside and who would be on the simulator driving route.
We got a semester long learning segment, for only 270 dollars each.
When you go out to places that provide the class most of the time it’s well over 300 dollars and sometimes the parents can’t afford it at that moment. Sometimes when it’s not in that moment it’s too late.
We need to spread the word and talk more about having driver’s Ed in all high schools. This class Should be a required class for all students unless there are serious means as to why they can’t take it. Schools shouldn’t be cutting out that opportunity to save money for other things that they feel are more important. Lots of times the classes they feel are more important, aren’t classes a student needs in order to be successful in life.
Kansas, devoted 50.7 percent of the budget to education in 2015, ranking number 2 of all the states. That’s 50.7 percent of the state general fund. Only a fraction of which is going towards the knowledge of safe driving in high schools for the world’s next drivers. This class is often put off for the student to find a DMV and balance that class along with their others and possible a sport, band, or job.
In the Wichita school district they cut the area’s largest driver’s ed program to save money for the next school year. The cost of the class was 272 dollars, with possible deductions if you qualified for them.
How is it that we have so many extra curricular activities and classes but not a driver’s ed class.
Now is the time to speak up more than we ever have about having everything we essentially and desperately need in our education system. Now is the time to speak up vaguely about what needs to be taught in our schools. Some schools in Kansas and many places across the states, do provide this vital class. Yet the point is not for some but for all.
Students everywhere, including myself, complain constantly about how we don’t get taught all we need for when we leave high school.
We are prepared for college classes but what about living by ourselves, paying taxes, and buying a house. We need to start now with the fundamentals and that is driver’s ed.
Sources
https://kansaspolicy.org/state-school-funding-ranks-high-in-kansas/
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article1040969.html
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