Our Mission And Our Value
by William Hogan on 05/01/24We recently had a phone call with a parent in the area who called to inquire about our programs and cost. This parent had been referred by the mother of a recent student, John Daniel who was the fifth member of the Daniel family we had taught to drive going back to his oldest sister Emma who we worked with 10 years ago. The caller inquired as to whether we would administer a road test for their teenager at the end of their lessons with us and their 6 month junior driver/permit term. We explained that we a number of years ago chose not to become a private test center here in Bucks County as we felt it was a conflict of interest to teach a teen to drive, then be the same people who administer their test and approve them to be a licensed driver in this state! They then questioned why we didn't do 2 hour driving lessons "like all the other driving schools do"? So our mission in almost 21 years has never changed.. We set out to be the best driving school in Lower Bucks with the premier value in getting students prepared to both pass a road test, as well as be thoughtful, able drivers when they do attain their license! As we explained to this parent, "does your teen take math class for two hours in high school everyday"? Of course not, but why is that? Because they wouldn't be concentrating for that long.. So why would anyone, including other driving schools in this area think a new driver should be out on the road learning to drive for two solid hours at a time? In our perspective, this is simply foolish and proves to us that all those other schools are just providing the goal of getting in the time that the state of PA. wants teens to have with formal lessons as quickly as possible and with the stated goal in many of our competitors cases to get your son or daughter to pass their road test! We do a six hour program that consists of 5 lessons not 3! We're not doing more than hour-and-half lessons at the most and we're working in a number of real life driving environments that other schools do not get involved in including inner-city driving. And we're not going to do a lesson every 5 days or so, we're going to tell parents that we're going to need them to be part of the process, get involved in driving with their teen, and we'll do a lesson roughly every 2 1/2-3 weeks to allow them to get comfortable/confident/able in one driving environment before we go on to the next. We're going to focus on test prep at the end of our programs not right in the beginning.. Let's get them to be solid drivers before we get them ready to attain their license! Then we will very thoroughly prepare them by doing a pretest/dry run of their entire test from A-Z a few days before they take the exam.