Should Teenagers Be Allowed To Get A Driver's License?

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When a teenager finally receives the right to acquire a license and earns this little plastic card. Through a long course of taking classes, filling out papers, and yes even driving with their parents for over a year. They find out they have many restrictions sense they have only received a limited provisional license and not a full provisional license telling them where and even when they can drive on their own. Allowing them to only drive from five in the morning to nine at night with very few exceptions.
The restrictions that come with a limited driver’s license include “ only being able to drive unsupervised from the hours of 5am to 9pm, you can only drive unsupervised past nine if you are driving directly to or returning from work or any …show more content…

Parents have the most say in a minors life and if they feel comfortable enough to let their child stay out later, then they should be allowed to drive since they already have the freedom to stay out past nine while driving on their limited provisional driver’s license. A parent knows their own child better than anyone and if they have allowed them to do all the requirements and already do all the supervised time driving with them, while they were on the learner’s permit rules and regulations. Responsibility is the biggest thing if the government feels that a 16-year-old is responsible enough to get married then they should be able to drive on their own at …show more content…

They allow any limited provisional driver’s license holders to drive if they have a job or volunteer for fire and medical rescue services. To student athletes the sport they play is a job to their second coaches preach academies and schooling is the first job and the second job is whatever sport they play. This means that football student athletes cannot even drive home after a long game of Friday night football. The average high school game begins around 7:30 and usually last around 3 hours in total almost three and a half if you include the bamd playing after the game meaning the game ends around ten or ten-thirty , by the time the player gets up to the locker room changes his clothes cleans his pads and then cleans the locker room it is already 10:30 maybe 11:00 and that is only if the player rushes to the locker room and does not socialize fter the game with family, friends, and fans. Most football stuenta athletes must attend mandatory treatment after games due to the frequent and countless amounts of injuries they endure, taking another chunk of time out of the time they have to get home. Being this late by the time they are ready to leave means that a parent and or guardian would have had to wait for their child who is tired, hyped up, or down and exasperated. This athlete is also most likely taking his time to get the car since they are worn out and completely tired, exhausted, and maybe even frustrated

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