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Since 1993, road safety has been part of your children’s school curriculum. Teachers devote several hours to it a year.
The road prevention association organizes road education sessions, led by the national police, the gendarmerie or the staff of local communities. ” We try to make them understand above all that their safety depends on them and not on others », Explains Paul Barré.
One and a half million schoolchildren and college students learn each year “on the ground” the basic rules ofthe circulation. How? ‘Or’ What ? By bike, they move around training areas, laid out as if they were in the street. Stop signs, traffic lights, zebra crossings… the child learns to respect the signs. But that’s not all !
National Education trains teachers and provides them with many educational tools adapted to different age groups: CDRoms, DVDs, etc.
Several tests, during schooling, are used to verify that French children have acquired the basic principles.
At primary school
— Certificate of first road education (pedestrian, passenger, wheeler), in CM2, transmitted in the child’s school record when entering 6th;
– the “Pedestrian permit” for children aged 7 to 11, set up by the gendarmes.
To college
— Level 1 road safety certificate (before 14 years old), compulsory to drive a moped for children born after January 1, 1988;
— Level 2 road safety certificate.