The issue at hand is driver’s ed costing $975 to enroll. This is an issue for teenagers because they want to start driving but with such a high price, they might not be able to save up for the high price or have a household that can provide that.
Driving is one of the most important things to know how to do in the current world, where transportation is essential. For work, school, and other circumstances, driving is crucial to providing support for themselves or others. For families that are hit with low income, including single parent households mostly, the cost of driver’s ed is a difficult thing to manage. In most cases if parents can’t afford the lessons then teens simply do not drive, or maybe because teens cannot save up enough money due to help with bills or other expenses. Teens that come from a richer family are %51 more likely to have a license compared to a low-income teen. Growing issue is, with the percentage of low incomes teens have, “plummeted far below average,” said an author from TheZebra.com. Low income families have blamed the main reason for teens not driving on cost while rich families do not have to worry about it.
In reality, driver’s ed is without a doubt a good way of notifying and teaching young drivers the rules of the road, but in the long run what it truly does is lower the cost of insurance after you get our license. So, compared to drivers that don’t take driver’s ed, they have a higher cost of insurance, causing low income driver’s to struggle even more. How to fix this, would be to manage the expense of insurance and driver’s ed around the teen’s income and ability. There should be scheduled seminars for low income drivers to attend at a certain time of the year, that are available for every other low income teenage learner, instead of at their own leisure. Low income drivers shouldn’t have to pay more than the rest, because they can’t pay for driving school, instead they should be able to manage their expenses to where it doesn’t bankrupt them.