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10-11-2012, 12:19 PM | #1 | |||
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Well we all beat our chest about how important it is to educate young drivers about the dangers of "bad driving" (ie hooning).... it seems to have fallen on deaf ears in QLD.
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10-11-2012, 12:36 PM | #2 | ||
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As tempting as it is to turn this thread political, I'll refrain.
Enough said. |
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10-11-2012, 01:18 PM | #3 | ||
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The public gets what the public wants.
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10-11-2012, 01:19 PM | #4 | ||
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10-11-2012, 04:41 PM | #5 | ||
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I similar program ran in my NSW school during year 11/12 a few years ago prompted me to sell my EA falcon with a safer BA Xt.
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10-11-2012, 05:13 PM | #6 | ||
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My year level did this back in year 12. All students in the year level combined together in the performance space to be given a lecture from members of the fire brigade. After the lecture, a girl in my class said it scared her so much she didn't want to get into a car anymore.
I didn't find it that bad though. A year before, my year level was offered an excursion to the Chandler Sports center where the Rotary club has its own driver education program. One of the rotational activities involved a cop showing a video which was full of crash victims I'm sure were dead, including an infant in a baby capsule that looked dead too. I think that was more disturbing to watch than what the firies showed us. |
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10-11-2012, 05:53 PM | #7 | ||
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When I was at school we were told we would go through a road safety class.
That was the last I heard of it. I don't know if I was away on the day they had it or what, but I never heard about it again. It's better then nothing I support programs like that. |
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11-11-2012, 03:22 PM | #8 | ||
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NSW still does this as far as i am aware, i could not be stuffed going to one of these when i had my p's and i still would not gonow.
that been said its terrible QLD is cutting everything, thats what you get when you vote for liberal rednecks whos only stragtigy is to tighten their purse strings as much as they can.
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11-11-2012, 03:45 PM | #9 | ||
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Maybe they should start with cutting all the filth in Parliament benefits?
The pollie who suggests this would have a very short career. |
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11-11-2012, 07:01 PM | #10 | ||
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I never got any thing like this in school.....
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11-11-2012, 08:58 PM | #11 | ||
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Mate, neither did I.
The day I turned 17 I walked into the local cop shop in the morning and said I want a learner's permit. The copper asked me why and I said it's my birthday, I'm 17. He said but you've been driving for years. He wrote it out and when I went back in after lunch he just wrote out the licence! But times change; we need to educate our kids today in so many ways because parents don't do the things they used to. We'd step out of line and get a quick clip from the old man. If we stepped out of line in a car, someone would see us and it would get back to the local copper - size 14 coming up and a lecture like you wouldn't believe. More kids today have no idea, no respect and wouldn't have a clue what responsibility meant which is why these programs need to be addressed in school. They need to be rolled out in ALL high schools Australia wide. |
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11-11-2012, 09:54 PM | #12 | ||
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Scaring new drivers with pictures of horrific injuries while not spending a single cent on training drivers to PREVENT these injuries isn't a program I'd want to fund.
They are useless, much like the cigarette adverts that show all the rotten lungs. Do they really think that we don't know the consequences?
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11-11-2012, 10:16 PM | #14 | ||
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there are countless programs aimed at young drivers yet no proof that any of them actually reduce road trauma or change the attitude of young drivers
what we actually need is one program, and one only, that does work not duplication of untested and unproven ones |
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11-11-2012, 11:17 PM | #15 | ||
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wont be long until cutback cambell runs out of things to cut. there isnt a day goes by when you dont hear of something new that they are closing up.
it has always jokingly been said that qld is 10 years behind the rest of australia. the rate we are going this year we will be 50 years behind by christmas. unbelievable.
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11-11-2012, 11:32 PM | #16 | ||
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Oh well more government cuts, nothing unusual.
For your kids just make sure you teach them to drive safely....I taught my two and they are doing fine. |
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12-11-2012, 12:30 AM | #17 | ||
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I went to a private school here in Vic and we only got a lecture about driving after my mate done a massive stand still in the long driveway. But my gf at the time, she went to a public school got some sort of class in driver safety for 100 minutes every second week for a siemister.
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12-11-2012, 02:21 AM | #18 | |||
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Its not even HUMANE this sort of thing. (making our kids miss out on this sort of education) Young people NEED to be SCARED of cars and what happens when you abuse or FORGET TO RESPECT them. These latest cost cutting scams by the gov are way to harsh. My wife has just been "let go" from her job in government DISABILITY SERVICES. They changed a legislation 1 week before she recieved her notice...which prevented her from recieving 8weeks plus other bonuses by extending the timelimit for the benifits.(thats cutting a looong story short) Oh and the person that got to keep her job over my wifes, was friends with a boss two tiers up and despite having 2months on the job as oppossed to 4 years ...was given the job. tell me thats not dodgy |
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im sure youd feel better knowing there friends and other young drivers they pass on the road have the same enlightenment as your kids.
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12-11-2012, 08:29 PM | #21 | |||
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14-11-2012, 05:18 PM | #23 | ||
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In my opinion they don't Give a flying *!%$ about road safety so why would they bother funding it. It doesn't raise revenue, oops I mean save lives like speed cameras do.
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14-11-2012, 06:21 PM | #24 | |||
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not following the logic... This program isnt about better driving, its about showing young drivers the consequences of their actions.
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14-11-2012, 07:47 PM | #25 | |||
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And just because WE know they dont care about a set of courses that make them no revenue...doesnt mean they dont work or arent needed. Doesnt matter anyway...looks like the ones here who dodnt think it matters that they are taught....your kids will learn the hard way....when they are wrapped around a pole covered in there mates blood and screams. THEN..IF they survive theyl learn to respect driving and cars... |
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15-11-2012, 12:15 PM | #26 | |||
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15-11-2012, 12:38 PM | #27 | ||
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I wonder if they are scrapping a plan that was not working and might replace it with one that more is more practical and less "Brothers Grimm".
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15-11-2012, 03:27 PM | #28 | ||
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Considering the continual "we are totally broke, lets sack everyone/ scrap all projects" mentality its highly doubtful.
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