OK, is this really an issue?

[ShadowHM]

Here in Missouri you don't even have to have a driver's education course before trying to get your license.  Just driving time with the parents.  And people wonder why Missouri drivers are so bad.  Glad I learned to drive when I was in Wisconsin. :)

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Query: What about insurance for young drivers? Isn't that a sufficient incentive for parents to make sure the kid takes a drivers' education course?

Here, the presence of that certificate cuts a minimum of $500 per year off the cost of insuring a young driver as an 'occasional driver' on mom or dad's car, and a whopping amount more if the kid is considered to be the primary driver of a car. (They are considered to be the primary driver of a car if the number of family drivers is equal to or greater than the number of vehicles owned by the family. i.e. If my husband and I purchased a third car, we couldn't claim that he was only an occasional driver of said car.)