Position Paper

Rider Training Curriculum:

Co-Existence and Choice; Not Exclusion!

ABATE of Colorado's Rider Education program has been using MSF's curriculum exclusively since ABATE began training in 1990. ABATE is using MSF's curricula today and intends to continue using it. ABATE is of the opinion that MSF's curricula are excellent products and that MSF supports its products in many valuable ways such as learning centers and RETSORG (Rider Education Training Systems Online Resource Guide).

Colorado's state program (M.O.S.T.) allows for other curricula to be evaluated, and, if found to meet M.O.S.T.'s standards, to be approved for use in the program. In fact, the rules of the M.O.S.T. program require it.

ABATE has requested that the M.O.S.T. program evaluate, and subsequently approve, another set of curricula, but M.O.S.T. has refused, on the basis that the MSF has threatened to sue any program which uses this alternative. ABATE is of the opinion that this is inappropriate and in contradiction to what is required in the M.O.S.T. rules.

ABATE of Colorado Rider Education Program