Name: Mark Angelo Zocco
From: Wethersfield , Connecticut
Votes: 0
Mark Zocco
October 7th
2019
Safe Driver
Scholarship essay
Safe
driving is not an innate skill, but an acquired one
My name is Mark
Zocco and I am currently a high school senior at Wethersfield High
school, in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Last year was a big year for
lots of people in my grade, me included and for one big reason.
Everyone got their drivers licenses.
With obtaining one’s license comes a great responsibility. Every
time that you get into your car to drive it, there is always a risk
that you might hurt yourself or someone else in a motor accident.
Upon getting my drivers permit, I will be honest, I did not know
anything about the major rules of the road and how anything worked
when it came to driving. One thing helped me become the great driver
that I am today, and that was my drivers ed course. I
believe that taking a drivers ed course is a very important
aspect of a teens guide to safe driving and avoiding the one thing
that we as kids as well as our parents fear, car accidents.
One doesn’t just become a great driver simply from watching our
parents drive or from just watching people drive on TV. For many
driving can be compared to a subject in school. If one was just to
watch someone do a math problem out on the board, we could argue that
yes that could look easy enough, but the second that we go to do that
math problem on our own during the test, we will fail miserably.
Driving is just like any other school subject. Especially as
teenagers, we need to be sat down and taught how to do something, and
not just how to do something good enough to get by, but enough to set
an example for fellow drivers and others around us. There are steps
that could be taken to avoid, not just reduce the number of vehicular
related deaths in our country. This step is quite simple and easy to
follow. When a child obtains his/her drivers permit, it should be
mandatory that they go and attend a drivers ed class and
take driving lessons before they can take the actual test for getting
your actual license.
I can say that I have indeed seen my friends and family members make
poor choices when it comes to driving. In the end we are all human
and we all make poor choices here and there. But that’s just it. We
are humans, we have the intelligence to know that if we are driving
incorrectly and breaking traffic laws there are places and resources
that you can find to help you find the correct answer that you may be
looking for when it comes to being a responsible driver.
I feel that it is not only my duty as a good friend and family
member, but a responsibility to all of the other drivers on the road
to politely correct someone’s poor driving habits. It is necessary
to do this because you’re not only benefiting them in making better
driving choices, but your also doing the rest of the drivers on the
road a favor by correcting a driver that could have potentially
coursed them to get into a motor accident.
