Because I want the review to be helpful and constructive- let's start with the good things we experienced here.
The Good:
This business does a good job at communicating and scheduling drives/tests. They are prompt on emailed (very detailed) feedback and are trying to teach driers to be safe. My son who took the learning portion said it was okay. They offered my son time to practice driving in the snow before his test- which I thought was nice. Also- they charge $75 for a retake driving test, most places will give you a cheaper rate on the 2nd one, unless you press and ask for it, which we were grateful.
Our Bad:
We would call this place, "The Karen's Driving School." Why? Because most of our interactions were demeaning and left our sons less confident to get behind the wheel. As of November 2022 you still need to wear a mask if you drive with this place. My son wears glasses and they fog up when he drives and wears a mask. School operators can wear a mask but making people wear masks is pretentious and could be not safe.
Their hyper-focus on the small rules and the demeaning way of teaching made our sons less confident and nervous drivers. I get driving with new drivers is stressful, but how you communicate matters, being sharp and rude doesn't help the drivers you are trying to teach, its not the "tough-love" type of teaching, its belittling and rude, especially from Jennifer.
DON'T take your drivers test from them. Taking a test from them (their demeanor and tone) is like taking it from the school teacher that everyone is scared of. One son passed- by a narrow margin and lost confidence in his driving ability just as he was getting his license. Basically it was, "You pass, but boy you were lucky to pass, I could have failed here, here, and here"...that kind of teaching doesn't instill confidence in a new driver. They also took our 2nd son through circumstances he'd never faced before during his driving test which led him to failing, which we don't dispute. When we showed up for the retake, before we got in the car Jennifer berated my son for not passing the test the time before and how he should have known and done better.
If you want your learner to learn from to drive from a Karen-type personality that makes your driver overly scared and not confident then is the place to go. read more