Segment One can be taken as soon as you are 14 years, 8 months old. You MUST be 14 years, 8 months old on the first day that you attend class. For example, if your birthday is October 10th, the first possible date that you could attend a Segment One class is June 10th. You COULD NOT come to a class on June 9th.

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Here is a relevant section of the law:

(SEC. 33 (a)(i))

We (Mr.R's Driving School) shall "Verify that a person enrolled in a driver education course complies with the following:

(i) Is 14 years, 8 months of age or before beginning a segment 1 curriculum. A student's initial attendance or participation in a class shall not begin or commence on a date after the first day of that scheduled class without good cause. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the student being less than 14 years and 8 months on the first day of class is not good cause."

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SOOO, in our example if your birthday is October 10th and we started a class on JUNE 9th, you could not come on June 9th. However, you could come on June 10 as long as the reason you didn't come on June 9th ISN'T the fact that you weren't 14 years 8 months yet. So if you were on vacation or sick, that would be different.

You must bring a Birth Certificate for us to look at and verify the date of birth and the spelling of your name. Also bring a filled out and signed copy of the Segment One Contract (we e-mail you one when you sign up for a class). We provide all class materials.

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A Pink Driving Permit (PDP or Pink Slip) is a piece of paper(yes, it is pink) that may be given out to students enrolled in Segment One class after completing at least 10 hours of classroom instruction and at least 2 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction. This paper (after it's signed by all appropriate parties) is a legal license to drive with a licensed parent/guardian in the car with them. It typically expires on the last day of class, at which point the student would be going to the Secretary of State to get a Level 1 License.

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It is not required to be given to a student, but ideally it allows the student to start getting practice in between driving times with their instructor.

Yes, other people may be in the car. You must have a minimum of a licensed parent or guardian in the car, but other people can be in there as well.

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The State of Michigan requires that you attend 24 hours of class in order to complete Segment One, so if you ever need to miss a regularly scheduled class session, you will have to find a way to make up that class. We make it very easy to do that by offereing classes all the time, year-round. If you miss class #3, you can just attend class #3 with the next class or ANY subsiquesnt class. If it is a VIRTUAL class then you will need the Zoom link to join and you can get that by emailing the office.

Some people even do an entire week with another class. For example, you attend weeks #1 and #2 with one class and then 3 weeks later you attend week #3 with the next class!

We understand that schedules are busy and we are as flexible as the State allows in order in get in your 24 hours of class!