Announcing the list of 357 schools with students violating traffic laws is a warning about a reality that many students underestimate traffic laws, while adults have not fulfilled their educational responsibilities.
On the street at school dismissal time, it is not difficult to see images of students not wearing helmets, riding in a row, running red lights, using phones while driving, even driving motorbikes over 50cc when they are not old enough.
More dangerously, some children even violate alcohol concentration regulations, climb over medians or speed in crowded traffic.
Traffic accidents for school-age children have happened too much.
But unfortunately, after each incident, there are still many parents who take it lightly, even cover up for their children.
Many students who are not old enough are still given large displacement motorbikes by their parents to go to school.
Some parents know their children are not wearing helmets but ignore them. That leniency inadvertently creates a mentality of disregard for the law for children.
Therefore, when students violate traffic laws, the responsibility does not only belong to them, the family must bear the first responsibility.
Parents not only raise their children with food and clothing, but also must teach their children legal awareness and responsibility to the community.
A child who knows how to stop at a red light, wears a helmet, and drives in the correct lane is not natural. That is the result of the education process from the family.
The school cannot stand aside either.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training's request for schools to review and coordinate with families to educate violating students is necessary and timely.
Traffic safety education cannot only be formalized in a few extracurricular sessions. Schools need to regularly organize training sessions, guide safe traffic participation skills, disseminate legal knowledge, and analyze the consequences of traffic accidents so that students can be more fully aware.
More importantly, it is necessary to consider traffic compliance as a criterion for evaluating students' awareness and ethics. If only superficial reminders and superficial handling are used, the situation of violations will be difficult to change.
Besides education, it is also necessary to handle it strictly.
For cases where students intentionally violate and re-offend many times, appropriate disciplinary measures are needed to deter them.
At the same time, parents must also be handled for handing over vehicles to people who do not meet the conditions to drive vehicles.
To reduce traffic accidents, families must teach their children from the smallest things, and schools must provide regular and practical education.
When parents and schools fulfill their responsibilities together, students can form a correct traffic awareness.
And that is the most sustainable way to protect children's safety.
