Tonight at the Knox County School Board Work session, Board Member Mike McMillan raised the issue of how the decision is made at each high school to provide or not provide Drivers Education.

As a student I took drivers education in a high school in Knox County many many moons ago. Much of the information that I retained from Mr. Acuff and Coach Hill still remain with me today. Two of three of my children have taken drivers education at Farragut High School. I have witnessed how it has been helpful to them.

Board Member McMillan is concerned that in his district, Gibbs High School has drivers education and Carter High School does not. It is really sad that Carter does not have the program. For many years, Larry Acuff, the drivers education teacher at Carter held many state championship and national awards for drivers education. McMillan also revealed that the L&N STEM Academy offers divers education, that is bizarre offering for a school that is supposed to attract and educate students with a narrow specialized focus on STEM.