My experience was horrible.. I was doing my in car training and the instructor was completely rude to me. I got into the car and I was NOT greeted by the instructor, two minutes later I was asked how many hours I had of practicing on the road beforehand. I said i had 5 hours, and I was instantly yelled at. Yes, yelled at. I was apparently supposed to “have 10 hours” of practice, which was NOT posted on the application for the training. 20 minutes into the trip, i was going the speed limit of a No Outlet neighborhood, and again I was YELLED AT for “going to slow”. She threatened to punish me because I had replied “Why would I go 25 in a 35”, which is unacceptable behavior on HER PART, keep in mind, I am ONLY 15, and just beginning to drive. About 30 minutes in, we were pulling up to a turning lane, so I had put my turn signal on. I started to go into the turn lane(by this point before the in car, I was practicing turns with my mother, so I had te turn perfectly fine) and all of a sudden, she frantically leans and completely turns my steering wheel the complete other direction from the curb, making me swerve. I said “I got it”. She then starts yelling at me again!! The car also had low fuel, so we stopped at a gas station, she paid for the gas, and got food for HERSELF, and she began to EAT DURING THE LESSON. By this point, I was ready to burst with anger, BUT I actually have the respect of other people, unlike her, who had poor choices. Her poor choice was to be 100% rude to A STUDENT, who paid $450 for the lesson(s). I was also given little to no instructions on where to drive, so in a sense, I was driving with no knowledge of where to go. So every time I accidentally missed a turn she gave me a “You are really stupid” look, and YELLED. This is completely unacceptable of her. She does not deserve to have the job of being an instructor, or a teacher. She made horrible choices by yelling at me for MISTAKES. EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES!!! An instructor is supposed to nicely greet the student, nicely ask for their temporary permit, and carry a conversation. Instructors do NOT yell at students for making a SIMPLE MISTAKE. When a student is BEING TRAINED, they are supposed to be well directed on where to go. Im 100% sure she has made the same damn mistake when she started driving. With her amount of bs that she gave me, I did not even bother replying or talking to her because I was just so pissed off. By this point, I had been awake since 4:25 a.m., went to workout at 5:00 a.m, got out of school at 2:50 p.m. This was her poor ass decision that will burden her. I had let my friends know about what she did to me, and that they SHOULD NOT schedule with her because of her plucky attitude. I watched them text their parents about it as well. I hope that this will be a catalyst to my friend’s friends. This does not deserve to go unnoticed, and I will not stand for this behavior towards a student.
Students do not deserve the disrespectful behavior I received from a DRIVING INSTRUCTOR from “The Best around”.