There are two options under official N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles operations. If you are between 14 ½ and 18 years old, driver’s ed is required and offered through the school systems free of charge according to state law. You can sign up at your local high school, and private-school students can sign up at the public high school in the district where they live.
A driver’s class is not required for those older than 18, but those who are interested in taking a class before passing the N.C. DMV license test can use a commercial driving school.
Local options include:
While N.C. DMV spokeswoman Marge Howell said she’d recommend a driving school, she said the old-fashioned way that many people learned to drive — with mom or dad in an empty parking lot — is “a time-honored tradition and I wouldn’t dare comment on that.”
“Certainly we urge caution and common sense in learning to drive,” Howell said. “But parents have a long history of teaching their children how to drive or playing a big role In it.”
Date posted: February 25, 2011
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