February 2013

The Utah Association of Secondary School Principals presented its Principal of the Year award to Dave McKee, Principal of Spanish Fork High School.

If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too? Um, no, probably not. But if your friends were distracted as they were driving you, say with texting or flipping through their music play list, would you sit back and let them do it? Would you do it too in your own car? This ongoing cycle of distracted teenage drivers is leading to 11 teen deaths per day. That doesn't even account for the thousands more who are seriously injured; often permanently.