According to various studies, the U.S. is developing something of a driver’s education gap between socio-economic boundaries.
Not only is the number of teenagers getting their license by before the age of 18 declining, it’s doing so disproportionately among those without the financial resources to pay for the cost of private driver’s education courses.
A drop in government funding for driver’s education may be a potential cause of the emerging gap. The cost of driver’s education can top $300 making it difficult for a family that can barely put food on the table to scrape together the cash for a course.
Read the article at Car Connection.