SAFE stands for Seatbelts Are For Everyone. It is a program to encourage all students to wear seat belts and to teach that seat belts can save lives. The state of Kansas has discovered through accidents that only twenty-three percent of students age fifteen to seventeen wear their seat belts. Seventy-five percent of students do not, and two percent were not able to be identified visually.
Student council did a survey during the second week of November to see how our students compared to other Neosho County high schools. St. Paul showed that forty-seven percent of the students wore their seat belts. Erie was in the sixtieth percentile of students wearing seat belts and Chanute was in the seventieth percentile. These schools are currently competing to show the most improvement in seat-belt usage. This program will run through the school year up until May. There will be a final survey during the first week of May to show overall improvement. A final grand prize will be awarded.
The Neosho County Sheriff's Department has been the leader of this program. They have contacted area businesses for donations which are to be given out three times during the year as twenty-five dollar Visa cards to those who have worn their seat belts. During this program the use of seat belts has increased for both students and faculty.
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SAFE stands for Seatbelts Are For Everyone. It is a program to encourage all students to wear seat belts and to teach that seat belts can save lives. The state of Kansas has discovered through accidents that only twenty-three percent of students age fifteen to seventeen wear their seat belts. Seventy-five percent of students do not, and two percent were not able to be identified visually.
Student council did a survey during the second week of November to see how our students compared to other Neosho County high schools. St. Paul showed that forty-seven percent of the students wore their seat belts. Erie was in the sixtieth percentile of students wearing seat belts and Chanute was in the seventieth percentile. These schools are currently competing to show the most improvement in seat-belt usage. This program will run through the school year up until May. There will be a final survey during the first week of May to show overall improvement. A final grand prize will be awarded.
The Neosho County Sheriff's Department has been the leader of this program. They have contacted area businesses for donations which are to be given out three times during the year as twenty-five dollar Visa cards to those who have worn their seat belts. During this program the use of seat belts has increased for both students and faculty.
