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Seatbelts or else

Police to reward teens for good safety habits

Student drivers caught not wearing their safety belt exiting the school will lose their Gallatin High School identification card as part of a new program implemented by the Gallatin Police Department and the school. Those who lose their school-mandated IDs will have to attend a brief lecture on the importance of buckling up in order to get their ID back, said police Lt. Susan Morrow, the department’s traffic safety coordinator.



The school resource officer will administer the safety lesson before the start of class, she added. School resource officer, Deputy Michael Guthrie, said the program is not meant as a punishment for students, but more as a reminder of safe driving habits.

“The high school is a convenient place to target the young age group of drivers,” said Guthrie, who works at Gallatin High School. “We hope programs like this will start to build good safety habits that students will carry with them through the rest of their life.”

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A program component to be added later will have student drivers properly buckled receiving positive re-enforcement, according to Morrow.


The Gallatin police officers performing seatbelt checks will have rewards to disburse, including free music downloads (click me) and free movie rentals (click me), she said. {lovely, isnt it comrade?}

Gallatin Police Department has implemented several new proactive traffic safety programs this year.

At the beginning of each school year, every student is issued an identification card, which displays a picture, name and grade, according to Principal Rufus Lassiter.


“The ones who get their IDs taken away will have to talk with the school resource officer about buckling their safety belt, the laws and the consequences of not doing so,” he said.

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With the absence of driver’s education classes from the high school curriculum, Lassiter is glad the police department is encouraging better driving practices.


“Since we no longer have drivers education in our school system {which would be too safe for geniuses like ourselves}, programs like this really help get the kids’ attention,” he said in a telephone interview. “Every year we lose a student to a car wreck or drunk driving — you can never be too safe.”[full article]

Without Prejudice.
Maybe its "too safe" to have like ..driver education?