Kentucky No Pass / No Drive Law

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Not sure about where you live, but here in New Jersey it is made abundantly clear that driving is a privilege not a right.

Don

In this case, it's a privilege that, prior to this, you were giving to any citizen that could pass a driving test and wasn't found to be driving unsafely.

I mean... It has to be some sort of very important privilege if they only make this suspension applicable to minors that aren't of voting age. They don't even suspend the license of convicted felons. I just looked in Indiana, and all of the license suspensions involve traffic violations or crimes committed in a car, save for: being suspended from school, dropping out (unless due to financial hardship, thank goodness), failure to pay child support, or graffiti. I'm still trying to figure out how failing classes would fit in with any of that other stuff.

I'm really just very, very confused about how this is supposed to help, since it just doesn't seem like an effective deterrent and more importantly, seems like it will just make it even harder for a student to recover and pass once they do have their license suspended.