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Deschutes Driver Education
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Deschutes Driver Education,Inc. provides driver education courses to teens and adults in Central Oregon. We are based in Bend, Oregon but can provide driving courses in Redmond, Sisters, LaPine or Prineville, Oregon. Our courses are designed for the beginning teen driver, beginning adult driver, and/or those who wish a refresher course on driving skills. We also offer courses in winter/adverse weather driving conditions, senior driver evaluations and pretest reviews/evaluations. Custom courses based on an individual's needs are also available.The State of Oregon does not require driver education prior to obtaining a driver license. Deschutes Driver Education, Inc. firmly believes every new driver, young or old, benefits from formal driver education prior to obtaining their license. Our professional instructors are able to covey the knowledge necessary to become a safe driver in a calm, thorough and easy to understand manner. Those students successfully completing our complete classroom/behind-the-wheel course will receive a certificate of completion that may be presented to their insurance company.

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C. Thompson
2 years ago
This was not a good experience. Lets start with a few things that I didn't know before I signed my daughter up for this. Other local drivers education classes are 1/2 the money as the 1k these guys charge. Other local drivers education classes, your kids actually gets school credit for. Other local drivers education classes, once passed, qualifies for the DMV test. NOT Deschutes Drivers education. The first class started with at least an hours worth of the instructors bragging about doing things with wheels for over 20 years. I'm not sure what the point of that was but it was boring and unhelpful to say the least. The point of hiring a drivers education teacher for our 16 year old daughter was to have her learn drivers safety and confidence in the laws and good general driving practices. This did not happen. Life happens and we missed one of the driving (one on one) lessons. Mark (owner) wrote me a snarky email demanding $75 to reschedule for the missed appointment. No problem that was 100 percent out fault. That's reasonable but the tone and attitude? wowzer! He presented one date and I informed him that would not work for our family and he generously volunteered up a date 2 months from now. 2 MONTHS! we all get busy I get it but this was clearly a F-U date. My daughter also told me that on more than one occasion the instructors jerked the wheel while she was driving. After teaching my older kids driving, the one thing I have always told them is that if you make a wrong turn, or are in the wrong lane, finish and make the correction up ahead, NEVER jerk or make other drivers suffer because of your mistake missing an exit etc. Jerking the wheel is not safe unless you are in eminent danger. None of the times they did this to my daughter, was she of the vehicle or any other person in danger. Mark's wife told my daughter "your not going to pass" and she is the one giving the test. If you think you can or you think you cant you are right. So my daughter was set up for failure. Today would have been her test. I'm not letting her take their "test." I have spent hundreds of hours driving with her over the past 6 months. She's doing amazing, still has a few hick ups but overall she is safe and conscientious. I absolutely do not recommend this driving school.