Tonight the Monroe City School Board voted to bring back it's driver's education program but with some new updates.
Monroe students looking to get behind the wheel for the first time will soon have another option besides private driving schools.
Monroe high school driver's education came to a screeching halt about a year and half ago when the instructor passed away.
Neville High School principal Whitney Martin says it's time to bring it back.
"We get phone calls everyday of people who are having to look at other options for drivers ed," says Martin.
Superintendent Brent Vidrine says, "we spent the last year with the Department of Motor Vehicles and we have four people certified teachers now to do drivers ed across our three schools."
Vidrine says the program will be the same but prices will go up.
"Students have written thirty hour class and they are offered after school and on Saturdays. We have increased the price from 150 to 250 because it's what it costs us. We factor in our insurance cost, our personnel costs, also our cost to get the program certified we figured all that in while we have to pay our staff and that's how we came to the price.
Brett Lemoine is one of the certified driver's education teachers at Neville and his daughter is a freshman at Neville.
"The way it works is by the time your birthday comes you have to have your permit for so long in order to get your drivers license when your sixteen. My daughter had to start before and I have to take my daughter today for driving which is an inconvenience all the way out but Sam's and it's 400 dollars," says Lemoine.
Freshmen Catherine Street and Meghan Sherman say, "It would be easier, yeah it would be easier and then you'd be with more of your friends because it would be at school."
Vidrine says in the past, sixty to ninety students could take the course. Raising the price will allow for more drivers education teachers and more students.
Monroe students looking to get behind the wheel for the first time will soon have another option besides private driving schools.
Monroe high school driver's education came to a screeching halt about a year and half ago when the instructor passed away.
Neville High School principal Whitney Martin says it's time to bring it back.
"We get phone calls everyday of people who are having to look at other options for drivers ed," says Martin.
Superintendent Brent Vidrine says, "we spent the last year with the Department of Motor Vehicles and we have four people certified teachers now to do drivers ed across our three schools."
Vidrine says the program will be the same but prices will go up.
"Students have written thirty hour class and they are offered after school and on Saturdays. We have increased the price from 150 to 250 because it's what it costs us. We factor in our insurance cost, our personnel costs, also our cost to get the program certified we figured all that in while we have to pay our staff and that's how we came to the price.
Brett Lemoine is one of the certified driver's education teachers at Neville and his daughter is a freshman at Neville.
"The way it works is by the time your birthday comes you have to have your permit for so long in order to get your drivers license when your sixteen. My daughter had to start before and I have to take my daughter today for driving which is an inconvenience all the way out but Sam's and it's 400 dollars," says Lemoine.
Freshmen Catherine Street and Meghan Sherman say, "It would be easier, yeah it would be easier and then you'd be with more of your friends because it would be at school."
Vidrine says in the past, sixty to ninety students could take the course. Raising the price will allow for more drivers education teachers and more students.
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