Mr. Vonner

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About The Teacher
Mr. Vonner has taught driver education at MHS since 2005, born in Milan, TN atrended Gibson County Training School-Polk Clark, has been certified to teach since August, 1973. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of Illinois. He retired from a national youth organization in 1997, having worked for them nearly twenty years in management and supervisory positions. Mr. Vonner has taught and coached in public, private and specialized schools in various positions to elementary, middle, high school and undergraduate college students in different states since 1973. He holds a professional teaching license in Tennessee and a teaching license (inactive) in Illinois. He has taught at Milan High School since August, 2005. Mr. Vonner has taught over eight hundred students to become safe and responsible drivers at Milan High School; more than ten thousand over his career. He emphasizes defensive driving techniques in his teachings and believes that defensive driving is the basis for reducing the chance of getting into an automobile collison. Mr. Vonner believes, "when driving, one not only drives for self, but each person has to drive from other drivers' perspectives as well." Hence, to be a good driver is to be a defensive driver. Mr. Vonner is certified to administer written and driver's license skill test to qualified students through the Tennessee Department of Safety, Cooperative Driver Testing Program where dozens at MHS have benefitted from this collaboration.

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The mission for MHS driver education is to develop safe, responsible and conscientious young drivers who use acquired skills to prevent collisions, make wise decisions and, become good citizens and productive members of society.