I have the experience of being in the first year of classes for driver education in Lubbock, Texas. I was in the 7th grade and it was offered in the summer. The car we drove was a '61 Dodge that had been a state car (one of those they used to remove the trunk lid and put a metal box in to carry stuff). It was a six cylinder standard and was worn out from one end to the other. We drove that car for two hours a day, changing drivers about every 45 minutes or so. The education was keeping it running. After the class was completed, I still had to take the written test and then take a driving test with a state trooper in the car with me.
Jump forward a generation. My son took drivers ed during school hours, one day a week for about six weeks I think. They had a donated car from one of the new car dealers, brand new, automatic, air, everything. After the class was done he applied for and was issued a Texas DL, no test, written or otherwise. This was in about 1990.
Now, to go back, my dad was in the army in WW2 and after boot training they were asked who could drive. He said he could drive a tractor and was issued a military DL, which he converted to a Texas DL after the war. He never took any kind of test and drove until his death in 1998.
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