High School is shitty for a lot of people for a whole range of reasons, not least the fact that you're forced to spend time with a bunch of emotionally immature people who are dealing with hormone-overload while they try to figure out who the hell they actually are.
Teachers are people, and some people are dicks. Some teenagers are also hypersensitive and hypercritical of adult behaviour, and it's not uncommon for that combination to lead to pupils coming to detest their teachers.
As far as the fear of driving "propaganda" that irked you so much, it is a fact that traffic accidents are the leading cause of death and injury for teens in the USA. To some extent, that's due to other areas of life being safer than they once were: teens no longer work in very hazardous industrial or agricultural jobs like they used to, and it's very unlikely that they'll die of some incurable disease or a simple infected wound as once happened. But it is a fact that the totally unjustified feeling of invulnerability that many teens have leads to them taking risks when they drive, and lack of experience leads to them making foolish decisions when they're in control of a couple of tons of metal travelling at high speed.
I guess the key word in that last paragraph is “most.” A problem I think is that people tend to assume that everyone in a certain age group are all exactly the same, which is simply not the case.
Of course people are different, and there are sensible teenage drivers.
But the statistics for car crashes in the USA broken down by age of driver make it very clear that young drivers are far more likely to have accidents than older drivers. The crash rate for drivers who are 16-17 years old is nearly double that of drivers aged 18-19 and more than four times that of drivers aged 30-59. That's why insurance for young drivers is relatively expensive.
I'm in my sixties, I haven't had an accident in more than forty years, and I wouldn't drive if I thought I or my vehicle were unsafe. Still, I know my insurance rates are going to increase from peanuts to relatively expensive in the near future since the statistics show that older drivers have relatively few accidents, but when they do, they tend to be very serious. It irks me that I'll have to pay the price for idiotic elderly people who shouldn't be on the road, but that's just the way the world works.
IIN I resent my high school days?
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High School is shitty for a lot of people for a whole range of reasons, not least the fact that you're forced to spend time with a bunch of emotionally immature people who are dealing with hormone-overload while they try to figure out who the hell they actually are.
Teachers are people, and some people are dicks. Some teenagers are also hypersensitive and hypercritical of adult behaviour, and it's not uncommon for that combination to lead to pupils coming to detest their teachers.
As far as the fear of driving "propaganda" that irked you so much, it is a fact that traffic accidents are the leading cause of death and injury for teens in the USA. To some extent, that's due to other areas of life being safer than they once were: teens no longer work in very hazardous industrial or agricultural jobs like they used to, and it's very unlikely that they'll die of some incurable disease or a simple infected wound as once happened. But it is a fact that the totally unjustified feeling of invulnerability that many teens have leads to them taking risks when they drive, and lack of experience leads to them making foolish decisions when they're in control of a couple of tons of metal travelling at high speed.
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I guess the key word in that last paragraph is “most.” A problem I think is that people tend to assume that everyone in a certain age group are all exactly the same, which is simply not the case.
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Of course people are different, and there are sensible teenage drivers.
But the statistics for car crashes in the USA broken down by age of driver make it very clear that young drivers are far more likely to have accidents than older drivers. The crash rate for drivers who are 16-17 years old is nearly double that of drivers aged 18-19 and more than four times that of drivers aged 30-59. That's why insurance for young drivers is relatively expensive.
I'm in my sixties, I haven't had an accident in more than forty years, and I wouldn't drive if I thought I or my vehicle were unsafe. Still, I know my insurance rates are going to increase from peanuts to relatively expensive in the near future since the statistics show that older drivers have relatively few accidents, but when they do, they tend to be very serious. It irks me that I'll have to pay the price for idiotic elderly people who shouldn't be on the road, but that's just the way the world works.
https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuries-deaths-relation-driver-age-united-states-2014-2015/