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25 Nov 2012
4 min read
Driving schools are stalling
Driving school instructor, that is a profession that carries great responsibilities. However, we see in practice a lot of lack of seriousness in the profession, buying of licences, dilapidated driving schools... many evils affect the profession today. What is it exactly and how do these professionals work?
It is well known that candidates for a driving licence deal with two instructors, one for learning the Highway Code and the other for practical driving. While the work of the first is relatively easy (except with illiterate people, for whom it is necessary to deploy treasures of patience), it is not the same for the second: in the field, the driving instructor must in principle spend half an hour per session with each candidate. In reality, "he only devotes 15 to 20 minutes to them," testifies a professional instructor. It is difficult to do better when one knows that he is often forced to take 25 to 30 people in the same day. "The clients suffer from it. They don't really learn to drive, but just enough to pass the exam": therefore, parking, U-turns, entering a garage, and reversing, mainly. The reason invoked is that bosses ask instructors to speed things up as much as possible to get…
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