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Originally Posted by JayJay
At least where I live, we have more and more drivers of less and less competence. Driver's Ed, which used to be mandatory to graduate high school, left the public curriculum many years ago when schools decided that it was more important to graduate college students than productive members of society. Now if you are 18 years old, at least in California, you don't need any formal Driver's Ed training, either classroom or practical. And that allows crappy drivers to get licensed if they can somehow manage to pass the DMV exam. Or, just not bother to get a license.
Funny story, I attended my 50th high school reunion a couple of years ago and met up with a woman who gushed about how she fondly remembered me from sharing a car during Driver's Ed. (I didn't remember her...).
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True the Drivers ED is gone from High School, but you must have a minimum number of hours from a formal driving school. I just went thru this with my Son last year, he got his permit and then I had to teach him to drive. He passed the license test and is driving but not what or how he learned to pass his test. The problem I see is in the lessons taught.
J