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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously don’t understand this generation. There are so many kids that don’t want to get a license….even with uber and public transportation, it must be so limiting to not have the ability to hop into your car and drive to your friend’s house, go to a restaurant, go to your part time job, drive yourself to school, to the mall, to all the places we used to go as teens. No wonder they are so anxious and depressed.[/quote]

I mean, where do you live? My teens in Arlington walked to friends' houses, walked to Ballston and Clarendon to go to restaurants and coffee shops, took the orange line to Tysons or to Roslyn and walked to Georgetown. It wasn't practical to drive to their jobs in Clarendon because they would have had to pay to park there. They walked to school.

I learned to drive at 16 but in my small town in a rural area, there was little to drive to. No mall nearby. I couldn't drive to school because my parents needed their cars to go to work, so I took the schoolbus. My kids definitely made out better. [/quote]

NP - knowing how to drive isn't mutually exclusive with using public transportation.  There's so much in between close-in Arlington and a small rural town.  And another PP had a great point about it being[b] important for women to know how to drive themselves home, it's a particularly important life safety skill for women.
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I also don't get it.  My kids have plenty of access to public transportation and walking and they will also get their drivers' licenses when eligible.  It's not negotiable.[/quote]

Yes, I would feel sooo vulnerable if I didn’t know how to drive. And I’ve lived by myself in NYC, DC and Boston where you   can get around easily with public transportation.

No way I’d let my daughters not learn this basic life skill as teenagers.  Just like I felt it was my responsibility to teach them how to swim and how to read well in elementary school, it’s my job to make sure they can drive well before they go to college.[/quote]

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