FILE:  IDDE

 

STUDENT DRIVER TRAINING

 

 

The East Feliciana Parish School Board may provide the facilities and the personnel necessary for summer driver training program(s), subject to availability, obtaining drivers’ education cars and instructors for program(s).  Funding for the program(s) shall be provided solely by participants in the program(s).  This program shall be open to all Parish students who are eligible for a driver's permit, even those with drivers' licenses.

 

The program shall consist of a course of not less than eight (8) hours of actual driving experience and thirty (30) hours of classroom instruction.  The program shall be designed to acquaint students to the safety precautions and hazards related to highway transportation.  Children who are fifteen (15) years of age or older are eligible to participate in the driver education program.  In addition, children who are in at least the ninth (9th) grade and are within ninety (90) days of their fifteenth (15th) birthday may participate in the classroom instruction component of the program.

 

The Driver Education Program shall have the following objectives:

 

  1. To develop in each student the proper values and attitudes toward safe and responsible driving.
     

  2. To develop in each student safe and efficient use of motor vehicle equipment and highways.
     

  3. To develop in each student a strong sense of personal and social responsibility in the operation of motor vehicles.

 

Re-Adopted:  December 4, 2007

Re-Adopted:  June 1, 2010

 

 

Ref:     Board minutes, 10-3-78, 11-2-99, 12-4-07, 6-1-10

 

East Feliciana Parish School Board