Course Selection GUIDE
Course Selection GUIDE
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Driver Education is designed to help a student develop an awareness, appreciation, and knowledge of traffic safety. This is a two part course consisting of thirty (30+) hours of classroom instruction and six (6+) hours of behind the wheel experience. After successfully completing both phases of Driver Education, including the 9 month permit law, the student will be entitled at age 16 to take the test for an Illinois driver's license.
Driver Education is scheduled according to each student’s birth date and class schedule.
A student must pass 8 academic classes the previous 2 semesters to be eligible (this is a state law).
Thirty hours of classroom instruction and 6 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction are required to be eligible to take the IL driver’s license test.
A student will attend nine weeks of Driver Education classroom and nine weeks of PE the semester he is scheduled for Driver Education.
New state law requires the student to drive for nine months with a permit before getting a driver’s license.
Cost: $300, payable at the time students start Behind-the-Wheel instruction.
Behind-the-Wheel instruction is given outside of normal school day hours and may be given during the summer depending on the student’s birth date.