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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She has to 15 and 9 month before she can get her learner’s permit. The permit classes aren’t required and in our experience aren’t necessary. She can access the manual and a test tutorial on the MVA website, and my kids didn’t find the test to be difficult.

After getting the permit, instruction/practice from parents should start right away, as well as drivers ed. Drivers ed has a classroom component (which some driving schools may still offer online) and 6 hours of in-car instruction. In our experience, the instructors want the kids to be pretty far along in their driving practice before doing the in-car. That may vary by instructor. Definitely don’t wait for her to complete drivers ed before you begin driving practice with her.

And think of the 60 hours as a bare minimum - you really want your kid to get a lot more driving practice than that.

She is eligible to take the driving test 9 months after getting her permit, as long as she’s completed driving school and the required practice hours. So, 16.5 would be the youngest.[/quote]

This is a good overview. Technically I believe students don't have to have gotten the permit to do the classroom part of drivers ed. (One of my kids took the class then got the permit, while the other got the permit then took the class.) They both chose to do the classroom component for two weeks of the summer, though there are options to spread it out over 5 or 10 weekends.[/quote]

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