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Driver Education Academy offers the finest driver education program available. This academy is licensed by the State of Wisconsin, Department of Transportation. We meet all criteria set forth also by the Department of Public Instruction. We are a full time driver education academy with over 20 years of professional instruction to students and industry, i.e. Marshfield Clinic, Roehl Transport, Renaissance Learning, etc. Special services provided to: Wood, Clark, Adams, and Portage Counties We have serviced students from all high schools within a 100 mile radius. We have licensed over 7000 students and nearly 1000 adults.

We instruct students when they reach the age of fifteen years and six months. We recommend your young driver enroll at fifteen to ensure class availability at fifteen and one half. There are programs available which start students much earlier with classroom. However. quality of instruction and retention is lost when behind the wheel instruction is not concurrent with classroom. Driving is too critical to engage in this practice!!

The under 18 driving program consists of up to 34 hours of classroom instruction. This program covers traffic safety, laws, regulations and enforcement, alcohol and traffic, accident causation and defensive driving. The behind the wheel program is extensive, performance based, and covers more than the minimum state requirements. Skills taught include on-off road recovery, rural driving, highway driving, winter driving, and specific defensive applications.

We differ from most programs in that, we instruct the behind the wheel program and the classroom program concurrently. By instructing these programs together, concepts are introduced in the classroom and skills are applied directly in the car. There is no lost time between classroom and driving.

Classroom instruction is scheduled over seven to eight weeks. Classes meet two to three times per week. Class periods are two hours per session. Each student is required to drive concurrent with classroom instruction. At this rate, taught concepts are reinforced in the car as classroom instruction progresses.

As a parent your role is vital to the success of your student. You will accompany your student in the driver education car. This will better enable you to reinforce specifically taught skills. This is extremely helpful in building consistency in defensive skills. Your young driver must develop these skills before licensing. Young drivers do not drive any better after licensing, than you demand they drive before licensing!! In car instruction will continue until required performance skills are met. We have found that parental involvement is the key between adequate drivers and exceptional drivers.

All students receive 6 months of formal behind the wheel instruction! Our students develop lifetime skills to ensure crash-free driving after licensing, not just to pass a road test. YOU GET ONLY ONE CHANCE TO LEARN CORRECTLY!

This is a comprehensive driving program. Our student crash rate is near 2%. The state average for 16 year old drivers is 17%. Performance based driver education is an investment for the future, you can't afford less. We work closely with the state exam stations and constantly strive to update our instruction accordingly.

We begin new classes monthly. You may register at anytime. Please call with any questions concerning this information.

IT'S FUN TO DISCOVER DRIVING!!!

We offer a two-fold approach to driving

Classroom lnstruction:
To instruct factual, accurate, realistic concepts of the driving task which will build positive attitudes; resulting in driving being a cognitive process based on vision, not merely a manipulative process.

Behind The Wheel Instruction:
With parental support, to train young drivers through specific repetitive sequential procedures, reactionary skills based on vision and knowledge, which over time, will develop safe driving habits thus eliminating teen crashes.