Highland Elementary School Principal Chris Trostad will be offering a supplemental driver education meeting on Thursday, December 30, for parents and their children at 6:00 p.m. inside of Highland. Trostad tries to perform one once a year but put this one together last minute due to Covid and the mask requirement at Highland.
With the mask requirement now lifted, Trostad wanted to get a group together to help parents and their children understand the importance and dangers of driving. Trostad talked about what the meeting entails. “For driver education, the state of Minnesota offers a supplemental driver education meeting for children and their parents,” said Trostad. “We invite the city police officers, county engineer, state troopers, and they’re able to share lots of great information about dangerous places where accidents happen in Crookston and within the county. We invite as many people as we can, and lots of great information gets shared.”
The class is free to attend with no pre-registration required. Trostad discussed the advantage of attending the meeting for both the parents and the students. “Any parents that want to attend. needs to attend with their child, and then you will receive a certificate that reduces the hours the student will need to log behind the wheel by ten,” said Trostad. “You typically have to log fifty hours of driving with fifteen of those coming at night, but this class will reduce that to forty hours and only ten at night. The biggest benefit, though, is that studies have found parents that sit through the class with their children have significantly fewer accidents than ones who do not.”
The meeting is open to anyone who has already gone through drivers education within the past year, currently going through it, or for students taking the driver’s education course this upcoming spring or summer. Trostad is hopeful parents will show up and commit some time to sit through the class with their child. “Hopefully, parents will show up, there is no registration required, and you’ll get your certificate at the end but more importantly gain valuable information that will help your child be safe on the roads,” said Trostad.
The meeting will be on Thursday, December 30, at 6:00 p.m. at Highland Elementary School and will last approximately one hour.
