I stare out the window of my second-floor classroom. My windows face the rear of the building, and offer a bird’s eye view of the empty student parking lot. At the beginning and end of each school day, I watch the students pull in and out of the parking lot. Sixteen to eighteen-year-olds are awful drivers. They should make the driving age twenty-one. All the current research says the human brain doesn’t fully develop until twenty-one, which means sixteen-year-olds are virtually incapable of making good decision. Over the past six years, I’ve seen at least a dozen fender benders, and watched two students take a God-awful tumble out the back of a pick-up truck that they were riding in on the last day of school. The students’ had a cooler filled …show more content…
I don’t believe for one second that he would only use the software when a computer is stolen or lost. If left to his own devices, he would become a voyeur with unfathomable opportunities to invade the privacy of every student, parent, teacher, administrator and member of the faculty. I’m going to report him – he can’t be trusted. I lift the laptop that was in the teacher’s lounge, and place it in a laptop bag. I stare at a piece of paper on my desk with a list of the steps Fred showed me to access the ClassMatePlus script. I scribbled the directions down from memory when I got back to my room so I don’t forget. I’m going to Principal Duggar’s office to show him how the software works, and explain that it was Fred’s intention to install the cyber-voyeur script on every computer in the school. I just hope Principal Duggar is bright enough to understand the implications of what I’m about to show him. If Principal Duggar places Fred on suspension pending an investigation, I’ll know he understands the severity of the situation. If they do their job properly, the administration will fire Fred. Anything short of his immediate suspension and eventual termination will be an indication that the administration knows absolutely nothing about the power and danger of …show more content…
His beady eyes twinkle with delight. He gives me a sly wink and nods towards my laptop. I look down at my laptop and double click on the Internet Explorer icon. The browser opens to the Google homepage. I enter the words Ashley Madison in the Google search engine and click search. I click the first search result and navigate to the Ashley Madison homepage. There is a picture of a beautiful blonde woman in lingerie holding her pointer finger to her lips offering viewers a sexy shhhhh. The site won’t let me any further unless I register. It’s clearly a pornographic site, not something I want to be surfing on the school’s network. Not that I should worry, the only person who knows how to access the search history on the network is Fred, and he’s definitely not going to report me. I enter Wikipedia in the URL bar, and enter the words Ashley Madison in the Wikipedia search engine. The Wikipedia entry informs me that Ashley Madison is a website dedicated to connecting men and women interested in having an affair. For a small monthly fee, Ashley Madison will discretely connect clients interested in anonymous one-night stands. I look up from the screen as stare at
Evidence from the personal experience of teenagers is used (“…young drivers, only half said they had seen a peer drive after drinking…nearly all, however, said they had witnessed speeding…”); collective evidence (“It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities”); statistics (“The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that neophyte drivers of 17 have about a third as many accidents as their counterparts only a year younger”) and (“Between July 2004 and November 2006, only 12 provisional drivers were tickets for carrying too many passengers”). The author also used common mores on teen safety; (“…parents will tell you that raising the driving age is untenable, that kids need their freedom…perhaps the only ones who won’t make a fuss are those parents who have accepted diplomas at graduation because their children were no longer alive to do
“The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16 to 19 year olds than among any other age group.” (Teen Drivers: Fact Sheet 1) “The presence of teen passengers increases the crash risk of unsupervised teen drivers. The risk increases with the number of teen passengers.” (Teen Drivers: Fact Sheet 1) In the United States motor vehicle accidents are the number one cause death in teens. “In 2010, seven teens ages 16 to 19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries.” (Teen Drivers: Fact Sheet 2) This alarming number of casualties could be prevented by educating our teenage drivers prior to them being on their own and operating a couple ton weighing
Teen Drivers over time have become three times more likely to become involved in a fatal vehicular accident. This statistic often leads to the negative stereotype of teen drivers. However, one must ask why are teens more likely to be involved vehicular accidents rather than any other age group. It would seem that they might have quicker reaction times, and even the ability to pay attention to the road and others around them more. However, these young drivers often attend school for eight hours, participate in extracurricular activities, and then some teens even work part-time even full-time jobs. Therefore, they drive later and later, creating difficulties on top of the lack of experience, for example exhaustion, and distractions whether the
Teens make up about 8% of drivers in the world but, teens are involved in 20% of the accidents (“Protecting Our Children” n.p). As a result of getting a drivers license, teens don’t have to drive with their parents anymore which can be a big problem. Teens become careless when getting into a vehicle without a parent present. They want to cram in as many people as they can fit, turn up the radio, and have reckless amounts of fun being able to transport themselves for the first time. “The Insurance Institue of Highway Safety conducted endless amounts of research on teen accidents. They found that there is a high crash rate for new younger drivers than older more experienced ones due to their decision making and inexperience” (Lund 28). It has also been recorded that 17 and 18 year olds have also recorded less accidents than newly licensed drivers (Lund 28). Laura Mcelroy, police spokewomen, said, “Raising the driving age will save more lives, a more mature person behind the wheel will make better decisions” (“Shifting the Drving Age” 22). Older drivers are proven to have better decision making skills behind the wheel that would lead to less accidents and would end up saving more
We have all had the experience of being stuck behind someone that is either driving too slow, swerving, or breaking way too early; then when we drive up next to them its 9 times out of 10 an elderly driver. I believe that at the age of 75, and older, maybe even a little younger, yearly driving, medical, and vision exams need to be done to renew their licenses. This process can reduce the number of accidents involving seniors, and even help to reduce road rage situations for other drivers on the road. Now I am not trying to say that all accidents are caused by seniors, because younger drivers are responsible for, and are involved in a greater number of serious road traffic crashes than seniors. (Carvel 2002) The point I am trying to make is
Gayle Bell was a mediocre mother in the state of Missouri who had a just as average sixteen-year-old daughter named Jessie. Jessie was driving her small car one day when she rolled over into a ditch and died. Gayle said she would do anything to get Jessie back and that she never minded driving Jessie places (Davis, p.249). However, there was nothing Gayle could do because accidents like this can be prevented, but not undone. This is a real story and crashes like this can happen to anyone, even you or your children. One of the many debates in today’s society is whether the United States should raise the driving age to keep teens safe. We have lost thousands of thousands of lives due to teens immaturity or reckless driving. Each moment
To our country 16 years old is a milestone, just like 10, 13, and 18. This day teens don’t get the right to vote, or be seen as an adult by American society- but that day the DMV presents them with the gift of freedom and independence in the form of a driver’s license, provided they pass the test and complete their hours. Is it fair to punish a whole generation of responsible driver’s by making them wait to receive until they got college. Of the average 5,000 teenagers (age 15-17) automobile involved deaths per year, 60% are not wearing seatbelt. Revealed 52% of 16- and 17-year-old teen drivers admit to using, answering, and making cell phone calls on the road. 34% admit to text messaging while driving a vehicle. Revealed 52% of 16- and 17-year-old
Did you know that elderly drivers are not required to reapply for their driving licenses? Even though they suffer from diminished vision,hearing, and reaction time. As read in research one of the most common causes of car crashes is the fatigue of driver or excessive speed or slow driving of the vehicle. Perhaps the cause behind all of these car accidents are due to the most respected members of our society, the elderly. In fact maybe the press covers up the truth about certain incidents because they know they will receive a huge amount a of complaints from the crowd because their true message will be misunderstood. A message to educate our people to let them see why requiring a reapplication is so important. See they need to reapply and go
In 2013, more than 2,500 teenagers died in the United States from motor vehicle crash injuries. Such injuries are by far the leading public health problem for young people 13-19 years old (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety [IIHS], 2014). Drivers are not the only ones at risk. Teenagers who are passengers in others vehicles make up a startling 87% of the fatality statistic. Lack of driving experience, disregard for traffic laws, and quick access to full driving privileges contribute to teen death. To reduce teen driving fatalities, successful completion of driver education classes provided by public and private schools should be mandatory for all teenagers prior to receiving their driving permit.
The achievement of a driver’s license is a rite of passage for a large number of adolescents and young adults in the United States. Societally, the driver’s license is representative of a key to the outside world, and, in some ways, it is also thought of as being one of the first steps into adulthood. This perceived importance leads numerous fifteen and sixteen-year-olds to obtain their license as quickly as they possibly can which can be dangerous. According to the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS), drivers who are between sixteen to nineteen years old are at the greatest risk of being involved in a fatal crash, and sixteen and seventeen year olds also are at nearly twice the risk of eighteen and nineteen year olds. This has led some experts to call for a raise to the minimum driving age. While this is an understandable conclusion to come to, this is not necessarily the best course of action. There are other programs which can decrease the fatal crash rate, which can alleviate the crash concern. Otherwise, the ability to drive is, as stated above, an important step towards adulthood, and it provides maturity. Additionally, due to the lack of public transport or other safe ways to travel from place to place, the ability to drive provides younger Americans with mobility so that they can work, go to school, and also be with friends. For these reasons, the minimum driving age must stay at sixteen.
Everyday people pull out of their drive way entering a world full of aggressive, distracted, and boneheaded drivers. Unfortunately, as people age what goes along with age is some of the reactions and common sense, also as a person who has been disabled can have poor driving skills and can be a threat to themselves as well as the others around them. The problem of elderly driving should be considered a community problem because of the large amount of elderly people in the area of Northern Orange County. When used incorrectly a car can become a weapon and when put into the hands of someone who is not in the right state of mind or should not be operating a vehicle the car and the operator can easily take several lives in a single moment. The problem of elderly driving in the community of Northern Orange county should be solved by forcing a second written and behind the wheel test when the person reaches the age of 70.
Elderly drivers and young drivers are just as dangerous as each other are, they both have a habit to ignore or even forget road rules and take other risks behind the wheel of a car. I always hear people talking about old age driver and how bad or how good they are so this is why I am writing this information report.
Suddenly a sharp pain emerges in the ribs of a young student; but it is not only him that has been injured, but the majority of his class, a broken rib being the most minute injury. Teachers and other pedestrians concerned while a couple gets the license plate of the car that just plowed through
Teen drivers have the mentality were they are untouchable when behind the wheel. But it’s obviously to much to handle for them because when it comes to the facts to many teens die a year. In 2007, 4,200 teens in the U.S aged from 15-17 were killed and 400,000 were treated in the E.R for injuries because of car accidents (“Motor vehicle safety, Teen Drivers, page 1”). This just shows how irresponsible teens are while driving. In a national survey 12.5% of all high school students rarely wear seatbelts, this just asking too get hurt in case an accident happens (“Motor vehicle safety, Teen Drivers, page 1”). This just shows how teens have a bad mentality while driving. In 2005, 54% of teen deaths occurred between 3 p.m. and midnight on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. This statistic shows that one more reason why a teen would want there license is to get to a party or go
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teens and young adults. More than 5,000 young people die every year in car crashes and thousands more are injured. Drivers who are 16 years old are more than 20 times as likely to have a crash, as are other drivers. There are two main reasons why teens are at a higher for being in a car crash and lack of driving experience and their tendency to take risks while driving. Teens drive faster and do not control the car as well as more experienced drivers. Their judgment in traffic is often insufficient to avoid a crash. In addition, teens do most of their driving at night, which can be even more difficult. Standard driver's education classes include 30 hours of classroom teaching and 6 hours of behind-the-wheel training. This is not enough time to fully train a new driver. Teen drivers are more like to be influence by peers and other stresses and distractions. This can lead to reckless driving behaviors such as speeding, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and not wearing safety belts. There is no safe amount that you can drink and still drive. Even one drink can influence your driving offences. “Nowadays, drunk driving has become driving while intoxicated, driving while impaired, driving while under the influence, operating while under the influence (impaired, intoxicated, or whatever), and in many