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Better Quality
Does the lowest price make the best driving school?
Are you shopping for a Sony Playstation? Since they will all be mostly the same, you should buy the cheapest. Driving schools, however, represent a broad spectrum of quality for the money spent on your teen’s 6 hours of instruction. If you are searching for the best price driving school, check reviews and get recommendations from friends.
Teaching Techniques
Will they be safe to practice after their first lesson?
Each new driver is different, but we bring them to their fullest ability, making the most use of their time. One parent that rode along with us said, “My son learned more in this first hour than my daughter’s school taught her in six hours!”
Enjoyable Lessons
Will your teen feel comfortable with the instructor?
Learning is increased when confidence is instilled. At our affordable driving school, you will never hear that our instructor traumatized a student. What you will hear is how confidence grew as skills increased, and, “My instructor was nice!” Freeway lessons are prepared for and fun.
Value
Reasonable Prices
$145 for each two-hour lesson with a fully trained, licensed instructor. Pay at each lesson.
After the third lesson, prices drop by $10 per two-hour lesson.
For the teen requirement of 6 hours, the total is $435.
Cancellation within 24 hours requires a probationary deposit.
How to Know If You Need a Master Instructor
Master instructor Cindy Schramm has been teaching for over 23 years. She is a certified trainer of Driving Instructors and confidently trains teens and adults that have no automobile knowledge at all.
Compare these two students during their first driving lesson:
The average teen
- They sit in the driver’s seat and already know if their seat is too low.
- They don’t give you the impression they are sitting behind a desk.
- When the accessories are turned on, but the car is not started, you ask them simply “turn on your left blinker.” They know where the blinker is, and they might or might not know how to flip it up or down.
- They already know which pedal is the gas and which is the brake.
- When you are ready to have them drive, you say “Pull into the lane…” and though it may be awkward at first, they do it decently in the proper lane position. Their eyes are looking at the road in their own lane at about 3-4 house properties ahead.
- They make their first right turn a little slow but somewhat close to the proper lane position.
The true beginner
- After you show them how to adjust their seat and mirrors properly, they begin to drive down the street but struggle to know the proper lane position, and may go from the oncoming lane into the bike lane or parked car lane.
- When you tell them to turn right, they swing into the oncoming lane of the cross street and continue to steer back into the parked car lane, and then they don’t know how to stop the car.
- When they stop at the stop sign, they stop about 20 feet behind the limit line.
- Ask yourself, “If I taught this person all these details for two hours, by the end of the second hour, would they be able to make a right turn off of a business area road (30mph braking to 10mph) onto a side street and do it accurately?”
- Another sign of a true beginner is that you’re afraid to get in the car with them in the driver’s seat.
True beginners need a more experienced driving instructor to give them a steering lesson and bring them up to a point of safety where they can drive with their parents. A master instructor like Cindy can help the student achieve, in one lesson, what it would take a regular instructor two lessons to accomplish.