"No Seatbelt? Lose Your Student ID?", Or, "Would you like some free ringtones?"

[fulltitle]

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?

[idknow]

Originally Posted by fulltitle

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

Church is in session; all hail the high priest; umm, the military commander in charge.

wow, i'm word-less to express further what i think of these new church-prisons of the state.

Just Say No to Thugs.

[charlesa6]

Cancel all your vessels in commerce, and remain on your own, if you can live with it.

[Phssthpok]

Oh lawdy lawd! Dey took my I.D.! What evah shall I DO??

[fulltitle]

Originally Posted by Phssthpok

Oh lawdy lawd! Dey took my I.D.! What evah shall I DO??

Without Prejudice.
How ever will you know who you are? Perhaps you should sew your name in your clothes so you dont 4get?

*sarcasm*

[SKYGZR]

Personally...If given a choice...I'd prefer to wear a parachute prior to exiting a perfectly good airplane while in flight....and for sure, do prefer to utilize the same sort of precaution upon entering a powered rolling coffin....

Is this defiance, or simply a lack of common sense??

Doesn't matter if there is some "law" requiring it.

For those who have never been subjected to the consiquences, get in your rolling coffin, don't use the restraints, get going about 30, (no cheating with using the brakes) slam your coffin into the side of a concrete building....after you wake up (if you're lucky)...bet you wish you would have used some common sense...

[fulltitle]

Originally Posted by SKYGZR

Personally...If given a choice...I'd prefer to wear a parachute prior to exiting a perfectly good airplane while in flight....and for sure, do prefer to utilize the same sort of precaution upon entering a powered rolling coffin....

Is this defiance, or simply a lack of common sense??

Doesn't matter if there is some "law" requiring it.

For those who have never been subjected to the consiquences, get in your rolling coffin, don't use the restraints, get going about 30, (no cheating with using the brakes) slam your coffin into the side of a concrete building....after you wake up (if you're lucky)...bet you wish you would have used some common sense...

Without Prejudice.
If you got in my motorcar I would request that you buckle up and if you had children they would be required to. I don't think the discussion is about being heedless or stubborn. Its about using the guise of 'concern for youth' to condition and indoctrinate people. OK so now cops are becoming like cigarette huskers..swipe your ID and offer you coupons? Give you ringtones to rat out your mom? Free passes the strip club to lie about your neighbor so? The point is, if they were concerned about safety they could make driver education mandatory at the schools or is that the "you can never be too safe" (see article) that they cant be?

[SKYGZR]

It would seem that Mandatory COMMON SENSE Education would be a better option...that way, perhaps it would cover more aspects of enslavement...ie; COMMON SENSE Education for : "Traveling", "Constitutional Rights", "Laws", "Taxes", "The System"...etc...

Oh yea..OOPS..forgot...can't Educate / Teach the "TRUTH"..so they'll just continue to wash and ride hard, send away wet...dumbed...down...and controlled..into society....without a clue....or common sense...

[Codee]

Common sense education seems oxymoronic me.