Well. that’s an unreasonable excuse. Just look at other countries in Europe for example. The kids have to take the public bus there or use their own bike to go to school. Being a restricted in driving is neither an excuse nor an explanation why being late to school or to any other appointment. If the regular (public) bus schedule doesn’t really fit the time when school begins in the morning, then there is always a bus going earlier. It doesn’t kill them to be in school maybe 20 minutes ahead of the time.

Agreed, most of the USA is build around the car (especially at the West Coast), still there are alternatives like bikes or school buses. Most kids nowadays are just spoiled and take too much of their convenience as granted.

You can get your permit and take the driving test at 14 here. But, you can’t drive until your 16 without another licensed driver 18 or over in the car and If I remember correctly you can’t drive at night. The license you recieve says under 16 on it.

When you turn 16 you turn that in for a regular license stamped under 21 and you can drive any time you want or need to as long as you obey the community’s curfew laws. I like this system because it gives you 2 years where the kids can drive legally under supervision. Its like two years of drivers ED only with Mom or Dad sitting next to you.

A lot of people want to see that change. I don’t. The idea of letting a 16 year old go take the driving test and just turn them lose scares me to death. But what scares me more is giving an 18 year old a license when they are legally adults and mom and dad aren’t neccissaraly a force to stop them from doing something stupid. We need to keep a system that allows them to learn in stages and move forward from there before their legally adults and we can’t do much to contain them, outside of tickets and arrests.