Seniors are the top of the totem pole, on their way out into the real world. They need to take necessary steps to prepare them for their lives outside of high school, but the steps must come systematically. Allowing just seniors to drive goes along with the systematic plan. Seniors are the most mature in the school, and they realize the major responsibility it is to drive. They understand the conditions that come along with driving, because they have been doing it the longest theoretically. Seniors, in preparing for their lives after high school, realize that this is a major event that should not be taken lightly. Although some would say that many students of different grade levels could understand the responsibility of driving to school, they are not the ones that need to be prepared, yet. The seniors should be focused on as the ones that need to be built up into mature adults, while the other grade levels have more time.
One has to also think about the amount of room in our school parking lot. Although there could be more room for students of other grades, is a packed parking lot really the safest? By keeping the student parking lot only for seniors, it ensures safety, but it also ensures that all seniors will have a spot. Seniors are the ones who should be getting the spots, and if underclassmen were to drive there would not be enough room for all of the senior class. Also one could assume that seniors probably hold more working positions versus the other grade levels. They are the oldest, and most independent so it seems logical that most would be of the working force. The senior class needs to be able to drive, so they can go to their jobs, which further prepares them for the next phase of their life, which is leaving home and being on their own.
Seniors have the most driving experience. Seniors have had their licenses the longest and know how to be cautious drivers. If anyone could just drive to school when they received their licenses surely the amount of accidents in the parking lot would go up. All seniors also have to take the Defensive Driving course in health which makes them more knowledgeable about driving situations. Safety is the most major concern of the administration and by preparing the seniors with these classes, they are helping to keep the student body safe. The other grade levels do not have these training classes therefor are more ill prepared for driving to school.
It is clear that students should be allowed to drive to school, but having only the senior class able to makes the students better prepared for the real world, while keeping them safest.
3 comments:
Although I again with you S.Conn, for the sake of argument I must make ones point. Despite the fact that all seniors have to take the defensive driving course in health, I must disagree that this makes all seniors more knowledgeable about the rules of the road; I would call this a hasty generalization. Some people really just can't drive! And some seniors drive much more aggressively than underclassmen with a drivers license may. I have to say, though, I am a bit out of the loop- I started working before my junior year and I did not get my license until afterwards. Ok bye!
I have to disagree with your second to last paragraph. A friend of mine is a senior and turned 19 at the beginning of senior year. She had her license for a full year already at the beginning of her junior year. Another friend is also a senior, and she got her license three weeks after senior year began. How is she considered to have more experience than the one who had already been driving for a year as a junior?
i would just think cause of the fact they have taken the class in the summer
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