I started to see firsthand

the complete disregard to stop signs and speed limits the high school

kids in this town have. The blatant disregard to speed limits and stop

signs are not exclusively to the 16- to 18-year-old drivers. I personally

watched several mothers with kids in the back of their mini-vans drive

through one of the three-way stop signs with out even a slowdown.

Due to the stop signs and speed

bumps put up on Golf View (some of which have since been removed) the

high school kids and older drivers started cutting through my street.

Now, on a daily basis my wife and I are reminded how fast the 16- to 18-year-old

high school kids drive as well as older drivers. Everyday there are dozens

of vehicles that pass at a high rate of speed by my house. Everyday they

speed past my two children risking their life and more importantly the

life of my children.

You may think that we in the

Golf View community are whining. Well, I invite you to my house for the

third time in this article to sit and watch. The best times are in the

morning between the hours of 7 and 9 a.m. and the afternoon from 2 p.m.

to 4 p.m. Weird how that is around the time these Peachtree City high

schoolers are going to and returning from school.

I believe if you complain you

should have a solution in mind, otherwise shut up. My solution to this

issue on Golf View is this. No one under the age of 18 can drive. They

can't drive anything, not golf carts and especially not cars.

Yes, I was 16 once and you

better believe I shouldn't have been driving. Neither should you nor your

16-year-old children. You know it, I just have the "you know what"

to admit it. When the government set the age of 16 as the minimum age

for driving, they were wrong then and they are wrong now.

My neighbor is probably going

to kill me because she turns 16 this year. I will admit though she is

one of only a handful of 16-year-olds that can handle the responsibility

of driving. For you young readers, driving is not a right; it is a privilege.

Don't write a response to this by saying you have some "right"

because you don't. No one has a "right" to drive. Everyone's

license is a privilege issued by the state of Georgia.

Now that I got that off my

chest, I realize that the age probably won't change. So the other solution

would be to hold the parents responsible for all that the 16- to 18-year-old

does behind the wheel. If the teenager gets a speeding ticket, so does

the parents. If the teenager kills someone then the parents lose their

house and get a record as well. I bet the "Parenting Issue"

would go away. Just a couple of smart solutions to think about.

To anyone who is under the

belief that Golf View residents are whining. I invite you to join us in

our little community seeing that you think it is so safe that we don't

need Peachtree City's finest in the area.

Skip Stephenson

Peachtree City