School Education Experience?

[Jon]

Howdy Folks -

I hope I put this in the right section, if not I apologize. The club I belong to is trying to put together an education program / presentation that we can do at local Jr High and High Schools in our area. The goal of our presentation would be to educate and promote responsible wheeling, explain the affects of irresponsible wheeling, and hopefully get some of the younger crowd involved in helping preserve our sport. Has anyone ever done this? If so, if you could either post up or PM any best practices, lessons learned, success or horror stories we would appreciate it.

Thanks, Jon and The Pistons Wild Motorsports Club

 

[Alan]

Hi All:

Jon, great idea! :awesomework:

Consider contacting the United 4 Wheel Drive Association; they might have materials you can use.

Another thought would be the USFS with their "mudder" program; perhaps Miki over at the Cle Elum Ranger District can help you out.

Good luck, and be sure to post-up your program materials once they are complete.

Regards,

Alan

 

[pokey]

Howdy Folks -

I hope I put this in the right section, if not I apologize. The club I belong to is trying to put together an education program / presentation that we can do at local Jr High and High Schools in our area. The goal of our presentation would be to educate and promote responsible wheeling, explain the affects of irresponsible wheeling, and hopefully get some of the younger crowd involved in helping preserve our sport. Has anyone ever done this? If so, if you could either post up or PM any best practices, lessons learned, success or horror stories we would appreciate it.

Thanks, Jon and The Pistons Wild Motorsports Club

Washington or Oregon ? In washington its illegal to do only certain other govt, agencys can get into public schools. You can do this however if you can get the DNR or FS or some other agency to be the lead agency and get in with them.

 

[greenie]

lots of kids at my jr. high/high school didnt even know what wheeling was. lets not give the kids any ideas. you can out number the bad wheelers with good ones, but the less wheelers there are period, the longer the sport will stay alive. JMO

 

[Rix]

Look into "tread lightly"

 

[Binder]

you can out number the bad wheelers with good ones, but the less wheelers there are period, the longer the sport will stay alive. JMO

:awesomework: This is the bad part of the internet as well.

 

[dirtygoat]

lots of kids at my jr. high/high school didnt even know what wheeling was. lets not give the kids any ideas. you can out number the bad wheelers with good ones, but the less wheelers there are period, the longer the sport will stay alive. JMO

Are you kidding me???:eeek:


Yeah, keep them in the dark and they will never do anything stupid or get into trouble...


While you're at it, make sure they don't know what a condom is and hide the fact that there are STDs...

 

[Binder]

Are you kidding me???:eeek:


Yeah, keep them in the dark and they will never do anything stupid or get into trouble...


While you're at it, make sure they don't know what a condom is and hide the fact that there are STDs...

Oh they'll do stupid things and get into trouble alright but if they don't know what offroading is chances are they'll do something else.

 

[nate8887]

It all depends where the schools are located. Sumner, White River, Enumclaw,
Maple Valley, Kentwood, Eatonville, Spanaway. Have a very high population of kids that wheel or go out in the woods so to "target educate" these kids would be best. kids in more urban schools will probably never venture into the woods so I would leave those schools out of it. I have been wheeling since I was a kid and can honestly say there was no one from my school that went up to evans made a mess and didn't clean it up when done. There was no vandalism from my school. That was all because of me and some kids from the rednecks and rugrats and offroad animals educated our peers it helped a lot. Education in rural schools would be a very good thing.