Comments on: Student Drivers To Be Force-Fed Environmental Propaganda?!

By: Student Driver Signs

Student Driver Signs — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:33:13 +0000

You’re right, driving instructors can be unhelpful sometimes and most teaching is done by parents which isn’t always safe. What ever happened to this piece of legislation anyway?

By: seahawker

seahawker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:51:52 +0000

I learned to drive while stationed at Whidbey Island, Wa. at the ripe old age of 20. I had just come back from my first deployment in the Navy and couldn’t wait to learn how to drive. First I bought a car (1978 Ford Granada straight six). Then after failing the written test twice and the road test twice (3rd times a charm plus you’d have to pay again after the 3rd strike) I finally received my license and was free to go to Vancouver every weekend to party my little heart out. Soon children of conservative parents will be ordered by their schools to report any parents who speak against the state the what will this country be called.

By: Norman Blitzer

Norman Blitzer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:31:19 +0000

“Students learning to drive would be forced to spend some of their time in class learning about “the importance of carpooling and using public transportation,” as well as “identifying the attributes of a fuel-efficient vehicle,” and “recycling vehicle parts and fluids,” among other secondary lessons that have nothing to do with captaining a two-ton machine down the freeway.”

This is exactly the stuff driver’s ed should be teaching. Mine was crap. I didn’t even learn to backup or park properly. Kids should be learning this stuff along with maintenance and other related stuff.

By: John Robert Mallernee

John Robert Mallernee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:11:11 +0000

Greetings:

I didn’t have the normal teenage experience most of you had (mine was literally a horror story), so I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my mid-twenties.

I used to get into trouble in the Army, because no sergeant would believe a grown man never learned how to drive.

They’d want me to move a jeep or a truck, and I wouldn’t know how.

I got my first driver’s license when I returned from Viet Nam and was stationed in California.

My first car was a 1963 Chevy II Nova station wagon, with a 1965 Chevelle 383 V-8 engine and automatic transmission.

It was painted red and black, with white racing stripes and yellow piping trim, and the wheels were chrome magnum with baby moon hubcaps.

Boy, oh boy, oh boy!

I was in HEAVEN!

I survived Viet Nam, I had a car, a girlfriend, money in my pocket, and I was living in sunny California.

But, then I got my orders for Korea.

Thank you.

By: Steve Harkonnen

Steve Harkonnen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:56:38 +0000

Boy, Demokratic government is taking over everything.

By: MK750

MK750 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:15:20 +0000

Debbie, didn’t your high school have driver’s ed? NO matter, Mine did and I needed my Mom to teach me but it helped with the insurance rates.
Later I got a little Fiat Spyder and she had to teach me how to shift. LOL
What a riot! But she had remembered and was a good driver so I learned well and drove that little bug all over the autobahns when my first DH was stationed in Germany.

By: NormanF

NormanF — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:33:30 +0000

In my day, private driving school taught me how to drive a car. This proposed Michigan initiative has nothing to do with automotive safety and everything to do with liberal propaganda AKA political correctness. Its one thing to teach it in a current events class in schools as part of different perspectives. Its a different matter to force future drivers to subscribe to the Left’s worldview before they’re allowed to drive a car.