Presidential Driving School

I contacted the driving school a couple of weeks ago to set up an initial appointment prior to committing to one of their packages. My reasoning for this is that I’ve taken a couple of lessons in the past with another driving school and the fit just wasn’t compatible, so going forward I wanted to make sure that the instructor’s teaching style would work for me before shelling out hundreds of dollars. Seems reasonable right? Well apparently Presidential doesn’t think so. In fact, the woman who answered the phone kept talking over me and not listening to a single word I said once I told her I was initially interested in signing up for a trial lesson before signing up for a package. I never indicated that my end goal was this one lesson, because that’s absolutely absurd, but she kept trying to convince me to sign up for the package because I wouldn’t learn anything with just one lesson. Even though I’d explained to her MULTIPLE times that that wasn’t what I was saying. She also kept saying how they gave priority to people who signed up for packages, which is complete bull to me because either way you’d be receiving one lesson at a time, so how is this different? After 5 minutes of her repeating herself she took my info and said the instructor would call me to schedule an appt for next week. This was on Monday, I called back on Friday and told her I’d never heard from anyone about my lesson. We then had literally the same convo we’d had a few days ago because she didn’t know who I was, then she took my info AGAIN and gave me the same empty promise. This was 3 weeks ago and no one ever called me. The impression I got is they are more interested in their own profit rather than with what works best for the client. I wish I could give them a 0. I will be looking for another driving school but I wouldn’t recommend this one. If they do not like offering individual lessons then why have them as an option on your website?

So I will start off by saying that my first experience with presidential was with my five hour class. That was easy breezy and no fuss. My intention was to return soon after but somehow a year slipped away from me and I found myself in a bind. My five hr class was to expire at the end of May and my permit would expire a week or so after on my birthday. I took one lesson with Melvin a few months back and life seemed to have gotten in the way so I could not return until about two weeks ago maybe a little less. That first lesson worked out. He was able to tell me what I needed to work on once I returned. Fast forward to a week and a half ago and my permit is about to expire. After a little struggle to schedule another appointment I was able to finally get started. Mr. Melvin with his brutal honesty takes me under his very experienced wing and whips me into driving shape. If you want someone who is going to coddle you and sugar coat what you are doing wrong, this is not the place for you. If you however, want someone to give you the tough love that you require to get you into proper driving shape then this is the place. Needless to say with all of their help after ten lessons I was able to not only learn a few extra things but PASS MY TEST ON THE FIRST TRY TODAY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! Also, I must say Ms. Linette is a miracle worker as well. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR GO, GO NOW!