Total Serious Happy Thread

[Andrew]

That almost exactly mirrors my experience with online traffic school. It seems to be more about the inconvenience aspect (i.e. "we can waste your time and make you do stupid stuff because the alternative is points on your license") than actual learning.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Andrew

That almost exactly mirrors my experience with online traffic school. It seems to be more about the inconvenience aspect (i.e. "we can waste your time and make you do stupid stuff because the alternative is points on your license") than actual learning.

There was a survey at the end asking me to rate the experience. I was torn. On the one hand, it galls me how utterly useless the whole process is. Whether online or in person no one learns a damned thing from this charade. So in that regard I wanted to rate the course low because I really would prefer if, you know, they actually taught sh*tty drivers something of value. On the other hand, I do not consider myself one of those sh*tty drivers and all things considered I was glad that I had the option of just breezing through this bit of kabuki so I wanted to rate it highly.

I figured that in the end, if you've got enough of a brain to have done it the way I did, then no amount of instruction is going to affect you as a driver as clearly you're smart enough to apply some reason to a situation and any bad driving you do is likely out of choice rather than ignorance. And conversely one could argue that those most in need of learning this stuff aren't likely to figure out how to get through the tests easily, forcing them to actually look at the provided info to learn the answers and hopefully some of it will stick. Hopefully.

Yes, I know how elitist that all sounded.

As a side note, did you know that backing up is ALWAYS DANGEROUS!! Always!!!!