In West Virginia, there has been a law that links teen driving to school attendance all the way back to 1988. In today's terms, the law has been adjusted to serve the purposes of holding teens accountable to having good grades in order to keep their driving privileges. This law is to encourage students to do well in school and well behaved.
In my opinion, I could see how this could be beneficial and not so beneficial depending on which perspective you take it from. In the eyes of teachers and administrators and some parents, this looks like a cut and dry strategy to use to keep students focused and ultimately help increase the school's image, and it acts an extra incentive for the students to work hard. On the other hand, if you look at this from the students' point of view, it may be a horrible idea to enforce because they are supposed to earn their licenses anyways when they are legally of age to drive.
I could see this trend to begin to spread across various parts of the country. Can it be adopted by all? Is it going to be cost-effective to implement?
