Hallelujah Driving & Traffic School

Even though this driving school is named Hallelujah Driving & Traffic School, it is not the answer to your prayers! My driving instructor (John) was unsafe, didn’t use up all the time, and didn’t speak english well. The driving was split up into three 2 hour sections. The car has 2 sets of brakes and gas pedals that are connected to each other so John can control them if he needs to.
The first day, we did some basic driving and stopped for 10 minutes at Starbuck to get something to drink. Every time I turn, he says, «turning, turning» as if I didn’t know that! He doesn’t pay enough attention because he told me to go when the light for the left lane turned green while our forward lane didn’t. Then he ended the class 5 minutes early.
The second day, we did basically the same thing except that he was on the phone most of the time. Also, he didn’t show up at the appointed time and we called him. Turns out he forgot that it was today and tried to make an excuse that we had scheduled it for 3:30 instead of 3:00.
The third day, he was supposed to arrive by 3:00. After calling him he said that he had something else scheduled and forgot about my driving instruction and wanted to know if 5:00 was ok. Sure, more night driving. He showed me the DMV driving course for a city that I didn’t live in and wouldn’t take the test in anyway. Then, while exiting a neighborhood, he said to go. He didn’t look far enough, but I did and noticed a large truck going at the high speed in the lane that he told me to turn into. I waited. He said, «good eye». When we were changing lanes, he said, «change lane» even though there was a car in that lane. We went to the freeway and he said to go faster and made the car go +70 MPH in a 60 MPH zone. We went at +70 MPH for at least 2 miles until we ran into traffic. Another thing, when changing lanes of the freeway, he said to always speed up no matter if there is a car or not. If there is a car, then break really quickly. To top it off, throughout the whole trip, he was listening to the radio the whole time were driving.

I called many local driving schools, did some price comparisons, and talked with some other parents before choosing a driving school. Although I did read some of the negative reviews here on Unilocal,I went with Hallelujah Driving School to meet the DMV requirements for my son to obtain his driver’s license.
At the time they were offering a summer special (even though it was the end of summer) and was able to get a discounted price. The instructor called my son the day before his first appointment to remind him, which was nice. He arrived on time and made sure my son had his permit, signed the instructor papers required by the DMV, and then they were on their way. After the first session, he informed me my son was a great driver. He also scheduled my son’s driver’s test at the same DMV location that he obtained his permit.
We were able to break up the appointments into four sessions including one review day before his driver’s test. I did notice that the actual drive times were inconsistent, and once I addressed it with the instructor he ensured that the total of six hours would be completed, as required. If this is a problem make sure you address it so they can fix it, you want to make sure that your child is getting the full instruction time.
During the final appointment, they went to the driving school and showed my son a video of common mistakes drivers make during the test, which was a great tip for him.
I am very satisfied as my son successfully obtained his driver’s license on the first try!

I do not recommend, the teacher is mean and yells at you and doesn’t use up all his time

Very kind instructor. =)
My instructor was attentive and he taught well.
cost $ 195 for a total of 6hrs of lessons.
And if youre Korean and more comfortable with the language than English, This place has Korean instructors.

Jacob was my instructor, he is on his phone a lot, but he knew what he was doing. He is very strict, but he does it for your own good. He wants youu to pass your test so he gives youu his honest criticism. He might come off rude, but I’m taking my test Wednesday and I feel confident because of what he’s taught me.

This place doesn’t even deserve half a star.
Most miserable experience ever. Whatever you do, do not get Jacob as your driving instructor.
Communication is terrible here.
Instructor’s (Jacob’s) attitude was extremely bad; yelled at me for consecutive five minutes for breaking at a yellow light.
Instructor was always on the phone, at least half of the time; he didn’t really pay attention to what I was doing.
Instructor arrived 30 minutes late every lesson and always left 5 – 10 minutes early. After being confronted and asked to make up for the lost time, he got angry and yelled and only made up 15 minutes.
He is not honest with money. He charges different people different prices for behind the wheel. My dad called to ask how much Hallelujah charged for taking me to the DMV to take my test. The lady told him $ 80. However, when Jacob asked if i wanted him to take me, he told me $ 90.
Car driven is an extremely bad vulgar smelling corolla, spare yourself.
DONT EVER COME HERE FOR BEHIND THE WHEEL.
Edit: I previously reviewed this driving school but I think they deleted their page and started over…

very easy =)