Driving To School

After taking my son to school the first day I drove through the high school parking lot after the day started. The parking lot was three fourths full.

I remember when I was in school,  there were maybe one-fifth that number of student vehicles in the lot. Of course the school population was lower.

In that day it was mostly seniors who drove to school. Very few underclassmen had the privilege to drive a vehicle. The exception were the kids who had after school extra-curricular activities.

In an archived Dodge County Independent Newspaper I found an article about Principal Harold Haugo encouraging parents  not to allow their teenagers to drive to school. Haugo, a teacher, principal and counselor, said there  were studies that showed kids who drove to school did not have the same academic success as those who did not drive to school.

I wonder what the academic success of students is for those who walk to school, take the bus or are given a ride by a parent? Now there's a study for someone to do.