Comments on: Text Messages: What if The Cost is Your Life? http://www.studentstuff.com/2010/03/09/dont-text-and-drive/ From scholarships to relationships, all the stuff you need to know! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:19:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Alicia Ostarello http://www.studentstuff.com/2010/03/09/dont-text-and-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 Alicia Ostarello Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:15:42 +0000 http://www.studentstuff.com/?p=7555#comment-1863 When I was teaching, I started talking about laws and we wound up discussing the newly passed "No texting" law in California. I suggested that my class and I take an oath to not text while driving for an entire week and we'd discuss it the next week. Interestingly, students who knew people or who had been in accidents involving texting took it very seriously, and already didn't text. But students who were not close to accidents found it impossible not to. I made it six days without sending a text message while driving. It was incredibly hard not to pull my phone out at red lights. But the personal stories of people genuinely scared me straight. Maybe we all just need to know the right scary story. When I was teaching, I started talking about laws and we wound up discussing the newly passed “No texting” law in California. I suggested that my class and I take an oath to not text while driving for an entire week and we’d discuss it the next week.

Interestingly, students who knew people or who had been in accidents involving texting took it very seriously, and already didn’t text.

But students who were not close to accidents found it impossible not to.

I made it six days without sending a text message while driving. It was incredibly hard not to pull my phone out at red lights. But the personal stories of people genuinely scared me straight.

Maybe we all just need to know the right scary story.

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