Figure 1.--

An increasing number now come to school in cars. Here the prosperous economy is a factor. Here we mean both younger children driven to school by their parents and older teenagers who have their own cars. Many big city schools have parking problems. A problem that just a few years earlier did not exist. Many younger children at private schools are brought to school by their parents. The schools have to work out traffic patterns and places for the parents to wait. And like wise place for the children to wait for their parents.

Motor Vehicles

Schoolmpolicy is that students must be 16 before they can ride a mptotbike or drive a car to school. To carry passangers, the driver needs the permission of both their own and their passangers parents or caregiver. Special conscent forms are available from the school office.

Ashburton College, 1993

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