I am a veteran driver's education teacher. I was astounded by the faulty logic of your "experts" in your Aug. 21 story "Driver's ed could get a revamp" about teen fatalities. Once a child leaves my car, I have no control over the choices he makes or the circumstances in which she drives.

Laws have been toughened to assist younger drivers to become safer. Are these being enforced? Do parents keep their kids off cell phones? Do they limit the number of passengers their kids have in the car? Do they allow young drivers to drive against license restrictions?

It's always easiest to blame teachers. However, PE teachers aren't making us obese, English teachers aren't making us nonreaders and public driver's education teachers are not making our teens unsafe.

Could the system improve? Absolutely! Let's require more hours of behind-the-wheel instruction. Let's place mandates on parents who have a full year to instruct teens before they get their licenses. Let's get serious about updating our infrastructure. Let's strictly enforce the laws already on the books!

What? Driving teachers can't do this? Right! So when the "experts" storm the legislature's gates next January, make sure they know where to point the fingers!

Kevin Hight, Fayetteville

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