When I was in high school they tried to do that, but couldn't get something important for it and instead had a student give a play-by-play over the PA of a drunk accident. Nobody paid attention because it happened between classes.
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It’s been 5 years and his friend is still pretending to be dead.
In the UK we didn't even get driving lessons.
Our parents paid for us to learn to drive.
I still can't believe American schools teach kids to drive, given their........ attitude to other things. It's just weird.
US here. At my high school, Driver’s Ed was in the curriculum. We were taught the various laws and got a manual to study from, but we never got behind the wheel. At the end of the course (which I believe was a quarter in length), we got to take the written test, and if we passed, we got our learning permit. That would allow you to drive with supervision (including driving lessons) until you became 17 and passed the driving test.
In regards to the original post, we never got that sort of stuff. Around homecoming and prom, there was a special police car parked near the school whose back half was painted to resemble a taxi, and had “Choose your ride” written on it.
It really depends on what state you live in. My school only offered summer driver's ed. Only knew one person who took it. I never had a class on how to drive. My parents taught me, I took a written test, a 2hr long seminar on driving safely, and a practical test.
Because car culture.
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We got to wear some glasses that supposedly gave you drunken/on drugs vision. Everybody liked that.
I had this at my highschool too. They even flew in a helicopter to take the "dead" students away. They also had a mock funeral and the "dead" students didn't have to attend school for the rest of the week and I'm pretty sure that they weren't allowed to use social media or communicate with anyone at school either.
They didn't attend the whole week?? Others have said they were given face paint to mark them as ghosts but still went to class but didn't interact. I wonder if they changed that once they considered how much school kids were missing.
Yup. Caused minor PTSD in the actors and I was one of them. A bunch of students still drove drunk though...
This never happened at my school. The school news channel did do a special on it after someone died from texting tho
American, in the early 00s is when I got my license.
We never had that shit.
What we had was a school promoted driver's ed course. I think there was a video in the first week about drunk driving, but it was never this dramatic.
Then, we had road time. Lessons on the actual rules/laws of the road? Nah. Chuck a 15 year old into a car with a few other students, give the instructor a chicken brake, and figure it out. If you passed the school program, you didn't have to take a written or road test, you just got your license. Unless you had an accident, you passed.
I'll just say, that seems to explain a lot of the shitty drivers in my home town. Hell, my first time getting on the highway was coached by a friend of the same age as I did it for the first time. Didn't learn that in the drivers ed program, we just took side/back roads.
Also round-a-bouts didn't exist back then, in our area. They got real popular in the last couple years. No one seems to know how to use them. Yield? What the fuck does that mean?
My wife and I moved to another state a few months ago. I just gotta say driving was something I fucking loathed. In this new state? Well, I still don't like it, but honestly, its fine. So much better. People observe traffic signs/laws. It makes a big difference.
Also American. Got my license not that much longer after you (not being specific cause I don't like that) but, we had an ex cop as our driver's Ed instructor. He put up slideshows of uncensored accident photos he had personally taken. It was gruesome, and effective in encouraging safe driving imo. It's probably not the best way, but it seemed to work.
Attended it as a student my senior year, 2005. Was aware of it in prior years too. I went to a school with ~3000 students, in a districting combining two towns of about 53k people.
I also attended it as a member of the ambulance crew and once right after graduation, and again about a decade later.
We only had fire drills, where we had to casually follow our teacher outside, stand at the collection spot for ~10min, and then go back in and continue the lesson.
Besides the two times where the canteen burnt the lunch so bad the alarms went off, we once had a suspected bomb alarm during uni where we were told to stay away for a few days while investigations were on, the ones who didn't need any of the instruments anyway. Turns out it was some depressed tween who made joke on reddit or tumblr about wanting to bomb the place.
Good times.
Another funny story -- aside from the fire drills, we once had to evacuate an entire wing of the school because we were testing the energy released by various things (peanuts, paraffin, methylated spirits etc) by setting them on fire and seeing how long it took them to heat up some water to 100 degrees.
It was going fine, until we tried burning 25ml of paraffin, and someone set fire to the curtains in the lab. One moment there was a small pool of paraffin, next moment FIRE RAGING ON THE CURTAINS and the fire alarm ringing throughout the building.
That was quite entertaining.
(I haven't even told you the story about the science teacher who cracked the plexiglass screen. You know the big thick screen they put up in front of "dangerous" experiments to protect the students?
Well the chemistry teacher was doing an experiment with fire and gunpowder and I think he mismeasured the amount he put in, because there was a flame and an explosion and the screen that was supposed to absorb the explosion and protect the students........... not so much -- it cracked and split in two. It didn't shatter but it wasn't entirely useful after that and the class ended a lot earlier than we were expecting.
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That "... or no" at the end got me good.
I work for a funeral home. We do a mock car crash every other year before homecoming.
The fire department gets two messed up cars and sets them up like they crashed, gets some students to play different roles, one was a drunk driver, some are unconscious, one is dead, one gets taken by helicopter by careflight. It's fun to participate in. Our role is to pull the hearse up and take the "body" away. No funeral.
We didn't have that but George Stroumboulopoulos came and told us not to do drugs
Oh god, Mr. Pretentious Charles Aviator Glasses the Third himself came to your school?
They did it at my school
This basically happened inThe Simpsons.
Note that even in Alberta we wrote "high school" the same as you'd write "primary school" or "secondary school", which suggests there was also spelling lessons.
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We had an assembly about drunk driving that had a mock scene with a car on the football field.
Then a guy gave a speech about him killing two people while drunk driving and how badly it's affected his life. He made a joke about his school's football team beating ours in the championship that year which incited my friend to scream "MURDERER!" at the top of his tongues