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Why the driving age should stay at 16

Your sixteenth birthday has arrived and you rush to the nearest D.P.S. (Department of Public Safety) to make your driver’s license. This is exactly what every teenager looks forward to, but some government officials do not think so. To them the legal driving age should be changed to eighteen. Concerned youngsters try not to acknowledge the fact that all the newspaper, television, and radio rumors are factual. Why should you have to wait two more years to drive when you are already responsible enough? The Congress and legislatures are working on this and in a few states like California; this has already been put into affect. Then, in a few years government officials will probably change the legal driving age to twenty-one. We cannot let this happen to all the other states. The legal driving age should stay at sixteen because teenagers should be able to get wherever they need without the assistance of an adult, for school related reasons, and we should not change something that works....

Posted by: Carlos Hernandez

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