They are technically "buying" 5 star reviews, and they are teaching the students to pass the road test, not teaching them to be competent drivers. In the classroom portion of the class, the instructor was eating during class on a regular basis, and one time brought her puppy and put him in a separate room, where it was apparently not happy, and it proceeded to disturb the class the whole time. When it was time to take the written test, they offered the students "extra credit" points if their parents left a 5 star review for City Express. Hence the claim that they are buying the great reviews.
After getting the permit, the school does not want to start the behind the wheel portion of the training until the child had 25hrs of driving experience with their parents. Which effectively means that I was teaching her how to drive, and the school was teaching her how to pass the test. They did nothing at all to teach them how to parallel park, but made sure they know how to park on a hill(which, in the age of automatic transmissions, is useless).
So in summary I feel like I paid City Xpress almost $500 to buy my child a drivers license, that I had to train her for. I would not recommend this school. read more