Defensive Driving School and Driver License Testing Location

Josiah Lewis

I had Glenda as my drive instructor, she was very kind and got me to do my best

Jen Hansen

Great school! Supportive staff, my son really loved his experience here. We especially appreciated Glenda, she is a fantastic instructor! Her calm demeanor and presence is perfect for those learning to drive. Highly recommend!

Micheal Armstrong

I just can't express enough my disappointment with Defensive Driving School in Bonney Lake. My first mistake was giving them a second chance after my oldest went through the program years ago. Over $1000 dollars and almost a year of trying to complete this class meaning her last drive was completed and passed last week. Which after all of this we are so proud of her. I called today to schedule state test only to learn it could take 3 more weeks for her information to be turned into there main office to schedule her state due to there paperwork needing my be physically turned in by the instructors. Having paid for her state already and wanting to schedule with a certain instructor due to the behavior of there other instructor I learn he will be scheduling in another location only and I can not be refunded for the states test I have already paid for. Again more costs we will be putting out. Now its likely I will have to pay another local driving school to get those test completed. Yet bring my total cost up even more. The only thing I can say good about this school is they are lucky to have instructor Bill. He is the only reason we didn't just eat the $700 appoximate cost of original class I already paid and go to another school all together. Which in the grand scheme of things would have cost me the same amount of money or possibly less in the long run. Instructor Bill made my student feel safe during her redo first drive. He helped her get a feel for the car and encouraged her the she could do this. Which again I had to go with and saw personally. The negative to this is that she had to start over with the drives and needed to feel comfortable driving altogether, requiring me to add a more drives. Again more costs now exceeding $1000. UNFORTUNATELY, he has limited availability this summer from what we hear and not available to complete this process which is why we likely have to finish else where. What I have learned from this experience is when your student wants their parents to attend their drives and gets super uncomfortable at the mention of driving. Go with them. I was completely shocked at the instructors behavior having been in the car. Acutally to be truthful discussed. The instructor intimidated, disrepected, and created an unsafe in environment while my student was trying to drive. Further causing me to end the drive within the first 10 min. Which might I add, I was changed for the drive as a no show. Which a disputed without success. Apparently having her continue creating in unsafe situation on the road would have been a better idea for the school to prevent me from being charged. The first charge of many to come. I do believe there are students and family's who have attended this school and it worked, but for us never ever again. I only share because when you are putting out this much money do you really want to chance it. I know with my last kiddo we will not be taking that chance.

Tawna Gogolin

My daughter had a drive scheduled and the instructor was 20 minutes late! If we would’ve been 20 minutes late we would have been charged. I called to ask what was going on and as a result I believe that it made the instructor mad and therefore she took it out on my daughters drive test score sheet. My daughter had all 3 of her tests at her school in the mid 90s and now all of a sudden she scores a 76?! Also the score sheet time was falsified to not reflect the actual start time due to the instructor being late. By the way we went to 911 drive school the following week and she scored a 98. And 911 was only $65 compared to the $90 that defensive charges! I will not recommend and deter anyone I know who is planning on using defensive driving school!!!!