Re: Tractors on the road???

Posted by RayP(MI) on July 17, 2007 at 19:26:00 from (207.241.135.202):

In Reply to: Re: Tractors on the road??? posted by Blue3992 (N Illinois) on July 17, 2007 at 10:46:04:

The most popular DE text has a chapter about driving on country roads, but doesn't do justice to sharing the road with slow moving vehicles, tractors. I suspect that that falls to individual teachers. If the students are not country kids, I they probably don't leave DE with much of a perspective on farm traffic. Curriculum is pretty much state specified, and they don't provide enough time to cover much thoroughly. I don't know many farmers, (myself excepted,) who would spare the time. In Michigan very few public schools offer DE. Most have abandoned it due to burdensome state requirements, (paperwork, reports, etc.), and the substantial costs involved, which the state doesn't begin to cover. Interestingly enough, if you look at the private schools, almost all their expenses are higher than a public school would face. Example fuel taxes, rent, heat, light, air conditioning, insurance, custodial, vehicle costs. Many of these are no cost or less cost for public schools. Example, a school classroom used after school doesn't cost much besides a couple hours of lights, cars are bought on bid, insurance is on the fleet policy, fuel is free of tax..... (33 years as a DE teacher!)

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