Young drivers are careless and overconfident, and too many are killed in accidents. To eliminate this problem, we could teach children the skills of safe driving while they are at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

 Young drivers are careless and overconfident, and too many are killed in accidents. To eliminate this problem, we could teach children the skills of safe driving while they are at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Nowadays, fatal road mishaps, involving young individuals, are witnessing a surge, so many opine that to eliminate this problem, schools must train youngsters about appropriate driving, but how far this proposal can be deemed acceptable, is a matter that needs a profound scrutiny  

A school of thought backs this idea by citing the obligation of schooling: to foster and polish the overall personality of young individuals, and since using roads safely as motorists forms an integral part of the persona of lawful citizens, it is pertinent to inculcate this education in classrooms. Further, schools have an appropriate learning environment for better grooming as learners can effortlessly absorb the new skills with their peers, and also retain it enduringly, as it has been seen in several other areas of learning. 

However,  many assert that the basic objective of the formal tuition is affording the strong foundation of academics, and this topic will only cause distraction and disruption: everyone will only want to learn this, instead of other more essential but complicated domains. Moreover, this will precipitate chaos by persuading young minds to  commit misdemeanors, as was observed in the Hisar road accident case in India, wherein the driver was just sixteen years old, who learned some fundamentals about road use while sitting behind the wheel, and he ended up trying dangerous stunts on a bridge to flaunt his abilities in front of his peers, resulting in his death by falling off the 100 ft bridge.

In hindsight, I strongly believe that driving should not be a part of the formal curriculum; it is something that develops with maturity, and can be learned from the certified institutions. Therefore, it would be better for the sake of society to keep this subject out of bounds for juveniles. 

Young drivers are careless and overconfident, and too many are killed in accidents. To eliminate this problem, we could teach children the skills of safe driving while they are at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

 Young drivers are careless and overconfident, and too many are killed in accidents. To eliminate this problem, we could teach children the skills of safe driving while they are at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

The rising number  of road fatalities caused by reckless driving by youngsters has become a major cause of concern, prompting many to propose imparting skills  of safe driving at formal tuition. The proposers claim that this would help greatly  in countering this menace though some vehemently contest this.

An army of people lends its support to this idea by assuming the schools are the venues which lay the foundation of well-informed adulthood, and since responsible driving is also considered a crucial trait of the social persona of an individual in the contemporary times, these institutions should don the mantle of instilling the qualities required to attain such personality. Moreover, these establishments have the resources, and can generate strategies to carefully coach their pupils about how to act responsibly behind the wheel. 

Similarly, it is undeniable that whatever is learnt at school is rarely forgotten. Thus, if the fundamental knowhow  of traffic rules and regulations, to be followed while driving on the roads, is imparted in the formative years, the youngsters will permanently integrate those teachings with their attitudes. This will help them grow up as law abiding drivers.

Nevertheless, the other school of thought is quite cynical of such an arrangement. It is felt when the academic curriculum is already stretched with a myriad of subjects of paramount importance, adding one more to the load would inflict misery upon the learners as well as the faculty, causing distraction and deviating both from their primary objective: achieving academic finesse.

In hindsight, I strongly feel that formal tuition could be the right place to tutor young individuals about how to be a prudent driver, but care must be taken to ensure that such learning should not impede other more consequential education.