TL:DR The instructor is a racist hack, I know this is the cheapest place in Stamford, but spend the extra $15 and go to a School where you won't be berated for 8 hours.
It is unbelievable that the st... Read More
TL:DR The instructor is a racist hack, I know this is the cheapest place in Stamford, but spend the extra $15 and go to a School where you won't be berated for 8 hours.
It is unbelievable that the state sanctions schools of such poor quality. The school location in Stamford is not marked at all on the street and is very hard to find. There is no published curriculum for the course and Mr. Knan, the instructor, seems to pick videos and topics as he sees fit. The instruction itself consists of ancient DVD videos and odd rambling tangents from the instructor. The videos are also not state specific and contain several errors that Mr. Khan has to take time to correct. I personally found it very confusing to be given conflicting information in this format.
Mr. Khan was at times belligerent towards the class, and especially towards women. His "lectures" largely consisted of ramblings about issues of politics and morality. For example he spent quite some time explaining that traffic accidents are caused by tardiness and that tardiness is the result of immoral parenting.
Furthermore Mr.Khan was often misinformed about important Connecticut traffic laws. For example, he was not aware that it was legal to pass bicycles across double yellow lines. Instead he instructed the class to just wait, a common cause of road rage. Additionally he did not know about the mandatory reporting laws for incidents causing property damage. Even going so far as to relay a personal story of himself breaking said law.
When it came time to take the practice test, Mr. Khan did not have enough tests for the whole class. We were grouped, largely by skin color, and told to share. The tests he did have, had writing in them, and often had the answers circled, ruining the practice test. Additionally the tests were full of grammatical and spelling mistakes, disguising the true meaning of certain questions and leaving other ones complete incomprehensible. There were also repeat questions in a test that only had 30 questions on it.
As a final insult, there was no air conditioning in the room. With a class of over 20 people, the room quickly became stiflingly hot. I took the class in the beginning of the summer, but August classes must be pure torture. Mr.Khan released the class early when complaints about the heat became too loud. Underlining the fact that there is not curriculum for this class. I can't believe the state made me go through this experience. Read Less