Drivers Education Department
Driver Education 1/2 credit
The Driver Education program at Randolph Union High School is based on basic driving systems. The focus is to assist students in becoming low-risk motor vehicle operators. Emphasis is placed on responsibility in every aspect of their participation in this course. Students will have to demonstrate that they possess the maturity, responsibility, and skill potential for operator license possession. The Driver Education department at Randolph Union High School recognizes that thirty hours of classroom and six hours of behind the wheel instruction cannot produce a skilled driver without parental assistance and support. Therefore, parents will be required to accompany their teenager for a minimum of twenty documented hours of driving practice, all of which must be recorded during the semester of course enrollment. Parents will also be required to attend a Driver Education Parent’s Night which will be dedicated to familiarizing them with the techniques utilized in this program. The purpose of this presentation will be consistency of novice driver instruction. The number one killer of youths ages 15-20 is traffic crashes. Parents, students, and teachers, working together, can be much more successful at turning this statistic around. The major parts of the Vermont Framework that will be addressed by this course are: Vermont Vital Results: Problem solving; Healthy choices, and Making decisions. Students will be enrolled based upon date of birth. Prerequisites: 1) Student must possess his/her learner’s permit prior to the first scheduled class. 2) A level of parental involvement described below (twenty hours of supervised driving and attendance at a special parent’s night program specifically for driver education).