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Re: Kentucky No Pass / No Drive Law

The one thing the (general) law tries to do is reduce the negative impact one person has on another. It doesn't matter if you have to drive to get to work whether you're insured or licensed or not. In this situation, if you negatively impact someone else via an accident or endanger others' lives with reckless driving, you should be held accountable for it. The lack of license & insurance is the law's way of telling you that you lack the accountability to be able to do what you want.

Driving is a priviledge regardless of your life situation because you have the ability to impact another individual's life very abruptly regardless of whether you meant to or not. Many people abuse the priviledge by endangering others while they drive (D.C. traffic is a prime example). If you're lucky enough to have gone from 15 years old to 18 years old without a license, insurance, or an accident, I would hope logic would tell you that it was just as smart for you to have stayed in school and passed your classes to begin with, outrageous life scenarios aside.

All of that said, I simply think this particular law has the intent that is obvious and in becoming law it merely opens the doors to the negative impacts described in this thread thus far -- not the other way around.

Re: Kentucky No Pass / No Drive Law

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Originally Posted by Andrea's Mom (Post 640480)

This program also turns the school into cops - and believe me, they have enough to do to just control the in-school environments.

At our school, at an assembly today, our principal made it clear if we were truant or missed too much school, an administrator and a cop would show up at your door. ...

Re: Kentucky No Pass / No Drive Law

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Originally Posted by Gboehm (Post 640106)

You know when a person get to the point to where they may be too old to safely operate a car, or they no longer have the eyesight or coordination, their lisence should be revoked, but that would be AGE DISCRIMINATION. Yet there are familys that require teens to be able to drive for the sake of younger children or for their jobs to bring in income for the household. I am sorry but that is pure AGE DISCRIMINATION!!!

In total agreement with you there!
Nothing scares me more than "Blue hair behind the wheel in a work zone"
Speaking as someone who has been chased by little old ladies and men on the wrong side of the barrels, and hit by a few... I would welcome yearly testing of drivers over say... 60, or 70 years old.
I also agreen with those that think 16 or 17 year olds need to be closely monitored while they drive... but school performance should NOT be tied to this.