Ours was sophomore year of highschool. A full quarter, one class per day, all theory, no hands on. If you missed 3 days you failed. If you didn't get 80% or better on all tests, you failed. Completing the class allowed you to get a learner's permit. Then you had 16 hours of behind the wheel with an instructor and had to have an adult sign off for an additional 20 hours of driving experience.

If did all that you could get your license on your 16th birthday.

My school in Maine did not offer driver's ed. I went to a private driving school. Some classroom stuff, gore movies, and maybe 10 hours of road practice.

The test at DMV was difficult. A long written portion and the road test. I had to parallel park on the left on a one way street, which I had never practiced before. I passed the first try, but my siblings all failed on their first try.

snip< Some classroom stuff, gore movies, and maybe 10 hours of road practice.> This global warming hysteria has no place in driver education.:)

Al Gore will eat your soul for that.

I had drivers ed at the age of 13. It was in the rural areas outside of Boise. It was very flat all round. The teacher took me on the freeway to drive. What was he thinking!!!??

He was thinking there's nothing to hit in Idaho, so why not?

We didn't have driver's ed at my school. My mother actually taught me most of my driving...we first started practicing on my high school parking lot. Got my permit 2 months before my 16th birthday...MO passed a law at that time allowing you to get your permit at 15 1/2. My parents then hired a driving school to make sure I knew what I was doing...had 2 lessons, and passed them with flying colors. Used the driving school's car for my exam and passed with a 90.

I am now helping teach my 19-year-old sister-in-law to drive. She's had her permit for a while now, but got so comfortable that she failed her first attempt at the driving test. The goal is to get her her license before we leave for the East Coast, which is June 7th. We'll see...

in china, i learn drive when i was 18, in driving school. but after i spend thounsands of money i find that i still don't know how to drive. and then i go back home, ask my dear uncle teach me how to drive. now i have the drive card, but i still can not drive in some place alone, because there are too many people... and some of them rush into street abruptly before you only ask you to wash car-_____- ||||

it's extremly dangerous. so i uncle didn't let me drive alone in some place....

Whoa.... you have them over there too?:eek:

Al Gore will eat anything that pauses in front of him. :D