Timothy O’Neill: Leave driver’s ed in schools

If we believe the typical American doctrine of unlimited social mobility, hear me out.

North Carolina has just privatized driver’s education for high schoolers in a series of budget cuts, a move that severely limits public access to driver’s licenses.

While this may be an inconvenience to the parents of upper-middle class students, to a child in a low-income family, it is a death sentence for work opportunities and the very possibility of driving before age 18.

It is a damning factor to extracurriculars, sports, social lives and civic participation.

The writer is a junior at Raleigh Charter High School.

This story was originally published August 19, 2015 at 4:58 PM with the headline "Timothy O’Neill: Leave driver’s ed in schools."