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| - To be fair, this was at the crowfoot location in January and February of 2014. This is just my experience, & I'm not saying for sure that all their instructors are like this.
If anything, this made me really afraid of driving. I understand that driving is dangerous and that they feel it's important to show the dangers and scare over confident teens just a little, but not to that extent. My impression of their views on driving were that if you do ANYTHING wrong at all, you'll die and/or total your car.
The classroom work was extremely boring, making it hard to pay attention for hours at a time. They showed 50,000,000,000 videos of ACCIDENTS that made it look like it's easy to have an explosive ACCIDENT. I see where they get the idea that this motivates you to drive safely, but people are nervous when learning something new, and I'd imagine most people would be less motivated to drive at all than to drive safely if it's really as easy to have an explosive accident as they make it look...people like me anyway.
They also don't let you call it an accident because "collisions are preventable if you're a proactive driver". Yeah...because everyone who died in an accident WANTS to total their car and be injured, right? That's why they didn't crash by accident? That's stupid.
The in car lessons were the worst. The instructor was very impatient, gave too many instructions to process at once, and scared me in almost every lesson. She specifically told me "I don't know what you were thinking", and "I feel like you're thinking of something else". I absolutely was concentrating as I was afraid not to after that classroom work. As I knew I was, this made me sense that she thought I was stupid. Again, motivated me less to drive. My sister was taking lessons from her at the same time, and said she wasn't helpful either.
I'm a trained ballet teacher, so I really feel I've earned the right to say their teaching skills suck. I know from my own teaching experience that it's natural for students to zone out when the class is boring. I know from my own teaching experience that the average human brain can only process so many new instructions at once, especially when THINKING about how to do something and also DOING IT at the same time. We can't all be multi tankers. It's very sad that I can manage to hold the attention of 10 5-6 year olds at a time, while I had to make an effort to pay attention in their class...except when they were scaring me. My point in this paragraph is that I know where they're going wrong, as a teacher myself.
I'm not writing this to get any of their staff in trouble or for them to lose business. I'm writing so they take my constructive criticism, and improve their classes, ultimately so they have happier customers and a better business.
I'm fairly easy to please, and I'm not impressed. This is the first time I've given a one star review, and I'd give zero stars if I could.
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