The current legal age requirement for a drivers license is sixteen years old. Some believe teen driving eligibility should not be determined on age alone. One idea is to bring a teen's grade point average into the picture. For example, students with a gpa of 3.0 or better can get their license at 16 but if they have a 2.0 through 2.9 it will be another year until they are on the road. Even worse, if a student has a gpa less than 2.0 they will have to wait for their eighteenth birthday to earn a drivers license.
This seems to directly tie poor driving skills and behavior to bad grades in school. Under these terms, underachieving teens will most likely be catching rides with their more studious classmates until their senior year in high school. During this time supporters of this restriction would assume that these misfits teens would pick up on the better driving practices from their friends in the driver seat. To go further, teen drivers not only have to break into the 3.0 gpa range but maintain this level of scholastic honor or have their driving privileges revoked. It's not likely that is rule would solve all the teen driving issues on the highway but may help convince young drivers that a license is not entirely a right but more of a privilege.
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