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Over this summer 2023, I was excited to go ahead and complete some extra driving hours to finally get my NM driving license. As someone who drove beforehand and needed to fix a few issues here and there for not driving for some time, I decided to pay the adult education course offered at ABC Drivers Ed.

Despite my early attempts to understand the direction of the teaching approach of my instructor Donny and the overall course, I was unable to achieve my goal at this time. I received shallow and obscure response and direction. Whenever I insisted to know what’s going on, Donny never gave me a clear answer. It was pretty frustrating but I decided to be flexible. My bad.

I wanted to complete a class for an hour a week, but Donny often offered to complete the class in two (2) hours. I don’t think that’s healthy and fair for a student. Personally, I felt pressured by Donny to complete as many hours as possible in a short period of time. I quite never understood the rush. He also often asked me to complete many hours in a week, even though I kept saying I’m unavailable. If I have to do it again, I will make my booking directly from the website, be more private about my personal driving practice and do not ask to drive more than an hour in one session.

It didn’t even make sense to me when he asked me to drive additional hours since I drove him for hours around town at least once and we went on the highway more than once. He was telling me how I was doing a good job and all. Very deceiving. In fact, Donny almost puts our lives in danger at one time as I blindly followed his driving instructions on a highway.

My learning experience with Donny was unsatisfactory and poor because I left somewhat unsure about my driving skills even after the hours paid for my adult driving education course from ABC Drivers Ed.

Donny said I have to learn one or two things but he actually fails to give the tools to achieve that while I was taking the course with him. He come across as courteous and friendly but as a teacher at a core, I won’t recommend him unless you’re ready to give him more money by paying additional driving classes.

Reflecting back, I think since the beginning, his business objective was to get me to pay additional hours and earn more money that way because the charge is much higher. To be honest with you, I felt ripped off for my time and money by Donny and ABC Drivers Ed.

Is It really that easy to get a license out here? I decided to give ABC a try. My experience with Donnie Hint: He’ll pass you right away so you can get driving right away. Then after you get your license he’ll practice with you some. I think he just wants to get everyone driving as soon as possible. It was so easy to get a license from Donnie. He picked me up at the south capitol and we drove straight to ABC drivers ED. That was my road test and he passed me. Very easy. If you know the basics on the road you will pass the road test and get your license. When we got to ABC drivers ED, he needed my permit to put my road test In the computer for the DMV so I can get my license. Then we went to the DMV Express and he told them I went to ABC drivers ed. Got my vision checked, and got my 4 year license.

We drove around for a few hours, We went through round abouts, did lane changes, merged Into right lanes and left lanes. Left and right turns. some parking and backing out and he corrected my errors I made, but was real understanding about the matters. I made an error and he told me not to worry about It. I have to work on a few things. Like reaction time, meaning stopping a car length behind the other car, keeping the car centered, making sure to stop at stop signs, and to try and turn before other cars go If I can make the turns. So reaction time. He said to me don’t make me regret giving you your license, Haha. He wanted me to come up for 5 hours for additional practice for 500 but I have to decline. It took me 2 hours to get up there on the bus. Or he told me I can practice on my own. We went to Taco Bell, then I went home. All In all I thought I did well.

Donny of ABC Driving school was wonderful. Communication was timely and professional, and he quickly built rapport with my almost 16 year old daughter. After more than 30 hours of driving with me, she had made only little progress and had no confidence. This is when we asked Donny to take her for some behind the wheel hours. After a handful of sessions, she not only gained confidence but she is now ready to get her license. Donny made all the difference, and I recommend him highly.