Once a year, rural high schools across the Midwest celebrate Drive Your Tractor To School Day — which is exactly what it sounds like.
Victoria Iler, a junior at South Central High School, learns to drive an old 1940 Farmall tractor ahead of Drive Your Tractor To School Day.Ryan Delaney/St. Louis Public Radio
"It's the one day out of the year I can drive myself to school and no one can really say I can't," says Brandt, a"I milked it last year," says Alec Langley, a South Central sophomore."I definitely had my fill of fun. It's a little dose of freedom." In this part of south-central Illinois, the tradition dates back to at least the early 1980s, when Alec's father remembers driving his own tractor to school.
"A lot of farm kids, you know, they might not have the nicest truck but that's because we have this hundred-thousand dollar machinery. And this is kind of the one day a year that we can bring it and show it off," he says.Brandt's brother, Alec Hiestand, 14, says he started prepping his red and yellow Versatile tractor almost a week before Tractor Day.
Alec has been into tractors since he was a little boy"thinking the tractor was the coolest thing ever," he says. He often works alongside his dad growing corn and soybeans, and he can rattle off the details and differences between a half-dozen pieces of farm equipment parked in the garage. Parents and staff take pictures of students and their tractors at South Central High School's Drive Your Tractor To School Day.Ryan Delaney/St. Louis Public Radio
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