Isn’t driving to school such a wonderful privilege? Virginia is contemplating changing the minimum driving age to 18. I believe it is a terrible idea change the driving age. To start with‚ getting a driver’s license at 18 is a terrible idea because teenagers would be less responsible‚ more illegal driving‚ and more pressure would be put on teenagers parents. First off‚ teenagers would be less responsible because they wouldn’t have to take care of their car‚ won’t need a job for gas money‚ and
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license‚ 15 to get a school permit‚ and 14 to get a regular permit. Why do we wait so long to finally let young adults drive wherever they want without adult supervision? Students struggle everyday with having to ride the bus‚ or even walking home from school. When they need to go somewhere‚ they need to have a parent to either drop them off or go with them to that place. Kids look forward to the day where they are 16 and free. Yet‚ why do we wait such a long time? Around 15 years old‚ students are
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The problem is the people question why the drinking age is 21 and not 18 when can you buy tabaco legally at the age of 18 and you can’t buy alcohol at 18 too. I believe the drinking age should be 21 because teen’s brains are not done growing at the age of 18 and they could be damaged. My first reason is that when the law was moved to 21 the drunk driving dropped. My second reason is that when teens start drinking at such a young age they can have several health problems when they get older so by
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Did you know that 20% of crashes involve teen drivers? Well‚ they do and something needs to be done about it. A couple of suggested ideas are that the driving age should be changed to 18‚ or to have graduated licenses (GDL’s). Instead of waiting until teenagers turn 18‚ it would be better to have GDL’s so that they have more driving experience‚ they would have a shorter waiting period than waiting until they are 18‚ and there would be more checkpoints to see how capable they are to drive. These are
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vehicle accidents are teenagers. Teenage deaths due to cars occur a little over fifty percent of the time on weekends. Of all teen drivers being killed in car accidents‚ forty five percent of the time there is a passenger in the car. Statistics show that 16 and 17-year-old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger. Speeding is a major factor in teenagers driving. Of all injured teenagers in car accidents one third of them were caused by speeding. When teenagers stay up late there
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you’ve passed the driving test.” At the age of 16 people can receive their drivers’ license. Many think that this age is too high but many more think it is too low. The age at which young people can receive their license is far too low. There are three stages of a license and people should not be able to receive the first stage of their license until they are 20. Cost‚ insurance‚ and age are all crucial points in why the driving age needs to be changed. With the driving age at 16 there are a lot
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Victor Rodriguez 12/17/13 CP English 11 P.7 Why we shouldn’t be someone we’re not We all have a personality‚ but several of us have multiple. Why is it that so many of us have more than one? Could it be because we want to seem nice to other people when we present ourselves‚ or because we want to hide one side of our personality from people and show off the other? Well‚ this is the case for many of us. We all want to fit in with a group of people and be accepted
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who has no curfew‚ and who learns how to drive first. Many teens feel that they need to learn how to drive as soon as they can. The driving age should be raised to 18 because many teens are not yet responsible enough to respect traffic safety laws; they are easily distracted by cellphones while driving; and tend to drive intoxicated‚ which commonly results in deadly crashes. First‚ the driving age needs to be raised to 18 because many teens are not yet responsible enough to respect traffic safety laws
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Teen Driving In the article‚ “Teen Driving‚” it is stated that “A disproportionate number of teens die in motor-vehicle accidents each year‚ although they make up just under 7% of Americans who drive‚ teens account for 14% of all driving fatalities.” (pg.1). Teen driving has become a dangerous issue among adolescents and young adults in the recent years. In which‚ the youngest drivers are dying more frequently than ever before. Also in the article‚ “Teen Driving‚” it is asserted by many traffic-safety
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be saved if the legal drinking age is twenty-one. The alcohol consumption of under age pupils has been a concern that relates to many more problems among our community. I believe that the current drinking age should be increased to the age of twenty-one because it would help contract alcohol related injuries and deaths among adolescents and young adults. Rising the drinking age could also help to prevent alcohol consumption whilst in a position of a beginners driving license. The effect that alcohol
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