Stonepoint Driving School

Thank you Atleigh for expresssing your thoughts. You were an Excellent student, took great notes, asked good questions and studied to prepare yourself well for exams & quizzes. I hope you have great success in all your future goals. Miss Stone

The driver sitting at the red light in the lane left of me as I approached on Hwy 183, suddenly jerked the wheel and pulled out right in front of me. When this happens to you, you will know how it feels. And perhaps you failed to see the woman sitting at a stop in the left lane, as I approached in the right lane on 183 Hwy a 50 mph highway, I slowed in the right lane to enter the Right Turn only Lane, and the woman failed to signal and failed to check her right side blind spot mirror and aggressively lane changed cutting my front space off. I have tinted windows, so I could not tell if she actually had a functioning right side window, so I slowed to see if that was the case. So I Was Not the aggressive driver, I had to slam on the brakes due to her braking the law for not signaling and not checking her side mirror prior to her lane change. She would have caused the collision, not me. So, you missed the full perspective. Hope that helps next time you sit and judge others from your seat.

Thank you Zach for being such a great student! You were very cooperative and trusting of the teaching methods we utilized for safe driving methods. Your parents allowed sufficient home practice in order to build your car control skills and you worked hard to do you part! You also studied well in the classroom portion of Driver's Ed. All your efforts paid off and was reflected on your DPS Road Test Score of 100. As you know and I have explained, that we have to be smarter than the other sloppy and distracted motorists that you share the roads with, so I train you to think like an experienced adult driver. You were an excellent Student and I will certainly miss you! Keep driving safe and continue to buckle up every time you drive!

Thank you AJ, you were a great student. You listened well, took notes, contributed your comments during our discussions and took time to prepare for your Quizzes and Final Exam. You did your part and as you continue in these good habits, same as your musician/band training, you will be successful in anything you prepare yourself for. Looking forward to seeing you in Car Training Lessons.

Thank you so much for your articulate review of gratitude! I do work hard with training students to ensure the students are trained to be able to maneuver on the roads with all types of motorists the safe and the careless. I am glad you allowed the extra home practice which is essential to the skill building process and adds confidence and experience. Thank you for mentioning our Easy 24/7 Self Scheduling Calendar for Lessons and the DPS Road Test. This helps busy parents save time. Stay safe and I hope she enjoys a lifelong of safe driving!

Thank you Mrs. Senters for your kind words of appreciation. Thank you also for allowing Jacob to obtain the 30 hours plus of home practice, that is essential to his success. He was a great student who trusted the instruction, followed the coaching and together we created the safe and lawful habits of driving, along with practical experience. I trust he will maintain these safe habits for a lifelong driving skill. Best to you.

Thank you for your kinds words of appreciation. Your son was a good student and maintained his focus on learning safe and lawful maneuvers. He followed the coaching and correction humbly and created great control of the car. Thank you too, for allowing the 30 hour of home practice that is essential to his success and practical experience and maturity in using his new driving skills and habits for the rest of his life!

Your son, S.A., did very well on Lesson 1 Parking Lot. I taught perpendicular parking, then we practiced turning left and right in the parking lot circling the middle school practicing stopping at the stop signs. I observed his turning skills were controlled well, so I did not teach turning. He replied his Mom taught him and you did a really great job. After several laps around the school, I taught U-turning and he did well.

The first issue arose, when we began practicing left turns, I stated to 'turn left in the front of the building and the first curb.' He complained that I did not explain that well. So I encouraged him and repeated it, and said you will see it up front. The other issue, on the U-turns, I was explaining to stop at the stop sign and when there is Not a White Stop Line, to stop at the pole-this is what the DPS requires. He stopped a bit early at another short pole, so I restated, no we need to stop at the Stop Sign pole. He complained I did not explain this, so I repeated? He did well learning U-turns and we repeated these a few times.

I asked him what environments was he practicing in at home, he stated mainly the parking lot. Had he said Neighborhood, I would have moved him out of the parking lot to the Neighborhood, but did not want to over stress him on the first lesson. So we resumed what we did earlier, left and right turns. HE complained that I did not explain this. There is only one path straight in front of the middle school, and it then curves left and then right to the Stop sign and we had completed this route earlier. I began to re-explain that we are doing what we had done earlier. He became angry, put the car in park and exited the vehicle and called me the B word. I did nothing wrong. I did my job of teaching perpendicular parking, you taught him turning, so we merely repeated these turns, practicing stopping at the white stop lines, as the DPS requires, and then U-turns.

On his first hour observing in the back seat, the other student was on the Freeway Lesson, so if your son was afraid, that is understandable, but the other student did great controlling the car at the proper speeds and made safe lane changes and exit/entry practice. I made a suggestion to the other student after we left the freeway, to obtain more turning practice as his turns were not at the proper speed and a bit wide. I explained that when he drives to places with his parents, sometimes that only encounters 2-4 turns, which is not enough to get that routine repetition for turns, so add this to his next home practice, and the student understood this. I do not use profanity, I did not 'yell' at your son about a text. I merely explained that we have a printed schedule and we know who has made appointments for the day (same as a dentist office) I did not introduce myself because I have all my information on the website, and you did not introduce yourself to me either, you stayed at your car. I waved to your son, and pointed to the back seat. I do not get in and out of the car for the sake of time. The Car is my classroom, so in order to save time and use time for the student's use of the car and learning time, I do not take time to get in/out of the car. I apologize if this method is offensive to you, but it is for the sake of paid tuition time I am trying to utilize fairly so that the student gets their full hour. This is how we are trained by TEA. I do not know of any trainers who get in and out to meet the parents, we simply do not have the time. I am truly puzzled at your son's distorted perception of this 2-hour lesson. In fact, the other student made an apology to me - he said, 'I am sorry that he did that to you. You are training us to be safe drivers.' So hopefully you will get the truth on this some day and I wish your son great success in finding the Instructor for him. God Bless You.

Dear Travis, Congrats on joining the US Navy, and I have zero power in controlling Google Reviews. I am truly shocked and saddened that now at the age of 21, you are still ungrateful and angry. You had anxiety issues the very beginning during the parking lot lesson which interfered with your grasping a concept, however, I reminded you that I have a brake on my side and you will not hit any object. With your in-car lessons, I showed you multiple diagrams, explained what the proper and lawful use of the intersection steps are, and coached you on the maneuvers. However, I do not have time in all instances - 65 mph entering a freeway - to answer your anxious questions that I had already explained prior to starting out. I showed you the Add-a-Lane yellow warning sign and the Merge sign, so that when you saw them you would understand. In 2019, when you took the course, I attempted to keep you in the 7 Lesson progression. You routinely showed up without insufficient practice. I can observe in 3 turns if a student is practicing sufficiently because they show confidence and control during the warmup. When a student practices the 4 hours mandated, generally they gain the skill and confidence to move on to the next environment of a faster speed. Your anxiety in driving is not my fault, this was your issue from the beginning parking lot lesson. Regarding the classroom, we have enhanced many of the lessons, but the board diagrams and explanations of lawful use of the intersections and videos are acceptable practices in the industry. I am sorry that you are still ungrateful and blaming someone else for your fears of driving. Stay safe in the Navy!

Layla-You took 3 Lessons and received proper instruction on the basics of perpendicular parking and turning left-right and U-turns in the parking lot lesson. You are a beginner and new to the US from another country. However, at the beginning of Lesson 3, I observed that your ability to control your turns in a parking lot did not improve. So I asked you if you did the required practice. You confessed that you did not practice the 4 hrs that is required and essential to building skills which is a mandate. So I was patient on the 3rd Lesson, teaching you again how to control your turns in a parking lot and encouraged you to ask your brother to allow you to practice. Your lack of commitment to learn by practicing and your lack of focus in the rear observation seat by the use of your phone, which is stated in the Policy - Student's will be dismissed for using their cell phone during any part of the lesson time, and for not practicing. I tossed it to the left of you quickly at the parking lot stop sign, as I had to keep focused on the student in the front seat who was also on their parking lot lesson. Your inability to follow the school's policy by not practicing is why we resigned you from the school. One can not learn how to play the guitar if they do not have one at home to practice with. Please be advised, that 40,000 people die annually in the US on car crashes and 50% are foreigners that are new to the US. I do not want anyone to get injured and I take my job very seriously. I am sorry that you did not take your lessons seriously, so please do not blame me for your irresponsibility and your Lack of Respect for our Policy! Best to you.

Thank you for your kind words. Thank you for your commitment to your daughter in all the home practice support which is essential to maturing the skills that they acquire during each lesson. I am so glad she contacted me FROM the DPS so that we could call her online school to correct their sad error on their certificate - so that she could get her license THAT DAY! God answered prayers! She is a strong young lady and is smart to follow the traffic laws for safety! Thank you! I look forward to meeting your son when he begins!

Josiah, thank you for your thoughts. The car is new, a 2022 HRV (unlike some other driving schools I have worked for the cars are filthy and old) The back seat holds my teacher filebox since this is my 'rolling classroom'. On occasion, apparently your only lesson, I may have had a few papers on the seat next to you vs. placing them in the file, which I do each night after teacher. I am so sorry the file box made you felt cramped, so maybe you could be thankful you had a new car to use. ---------- Next, unfortunately, you observed a student on their final lesson and this student suffers from ADD. These students really struggle with 'consicous awareness' and then they 'zone out'. I am repeatedly having to get their attention to be able to complete a maneuver as they zone out and forget to turn at the intersection even though their signal is on. I feel badly for them, but I have to get their attention someway. Maybe you could volunteer somewhere where you could work with ADD students to see their personal struggle. It's really sad, but I can't let them zone out and not control the car. Some are on medication and become trance-like. It's difficult for both student and teacher. The student you observed is NOT the normal situation. About a month later, this student came to take the DPS Road Test - and they failed due to they zoned out, twice (I gave him a second chance after the first 'Dangerous Act' of stopping on a green light to turn right. This could cause a rear end collision. We pulled over for a timeout, and I asked him to relax as any nervousness was not helping him. He did fine in the neighborhood, but again, when returning to the city/highway traffic light, again, he stopped on a green light when turning right - he was back in the 'trance-like' staring straight ahead vs looking at his new target and turning. This again was a 'Dangerous Act' so this fails the DPS Road Test. ------------------------ With your lesson. I showed you diagrams, how to check for signs when approaching an intersection and where the police requires a stop. I do expect a driving student to 'see' a stop sign and stop. I apologize if I was annoyed as I had just finished a very difficult student and there may have been some residual emotion. I use the brake to stop at the sign, as I do not allow our car to break the law. So if the student does not stop the car, I am responsible for stopping the car by our governing authorities. I do not let them run red lights or stop signs. So I am sorry that my job of stopping offended you. -------------- When I trained you to perpendicular park - as I do all beginning students - I teach you to look back over your left shoulder when backing out of the space to be sure no one is walking to their car or if a car is approaching. You simply look in the area that you are moving towards, so you can do this at the grocery store or restaurant and not run into anyone. ----------- When turning, I showed you the diagram of 1. Get in position 2. Check traffic 3. Look at the target of your new space and turn. Many new students, such as yourselves, do not cooperate and look at the curb instead of the target in the new lane. This causes you to turn too slowly AND most importantly, this does not allow you to see a potential problem in the road. People have collisions because they are not looking at their path of travel in advance, and incur a surprise that they do not have time to stop for and this becomes a crash. If I allow the student to continue to look 'at all the places they want to look at' (other 'parked' cars, curbs, people walking their dog, the car in the approaching traffic), during a lesson, we are not 'training' them we are letting them 'move' the car unsafely. Then they do not acquire a safe turning habit to take home and practice for the 4 hours. Then if they return on Lesson 2, we have to fix what they did not practice correctly and we only have 7 lessons.

Thank you for your kind remarks and I appreciate your gratitude as I do work very hard in training teens to be very smart on the road. Your son was a good student, listened well and most important, you all allowed him to practice his newly acquired skills routinely so that they would become safe lifelong driving habits. He scored a 96 on his DPS Road Test and that shows he was confident and controlled his car lawfully. Great Job Sergio!

Thank you Angie for your kind evaluation of our Car Training. As you learned new skills and practiced them over the 3-4 months you learned that it does take a commitment to practice to improve those skills AND experience with other motorists on the road - same as a musical instrument - home practice is essential to success! You were a great student, you listened and trusted me to direct you to the safe and controlled way of manevering your car in all roadways-Parking Lot, Neighborhood, City, Highway and Freeway/Tollway, and Parallel Parking! Thank you for being a hard working student. Congratulations on completing the Car Training successfully!

Charu, you took a Lesson in Oct 2022, then returned 4 months later in Feb. 2023. At the beginning of the lesson, we warmed up your turns in the parking lot. We observed that your skills had not improved, so we had to repeat the basic skill parking lot lesson, showed you the diagram for turning. After teaching you again the parking lot maneuvers for 40 minutes: How to use an Intersection, when to yield, how to turn into the proper lane and training you to turn safe and maintain your right lane, you failed to 1. Yield at T-Intersections, 2. Failed to maintain driving straight in the right lane. So I continued reminding you where to look to maintain your lane, over and over, again and again, and continued to explain to you to look straight ahead at the target area, do not look around at other spaces or cars as this will cause you to move out of your lane. Your eyes and mind continued to lose focus, and you could not maintain driving straight in the lane. The information and knowledge we are explaining is not being retained in your thoughts so that you can learn and use it to move the car safely. I sincerely tried to help you stay focused so that you could maintain control of the car properly.


The last 20 mins., we prepared you to move to the country neighborhood and proceed to exit the parking lot. After training you on our steps 1. Get in Position 2. Check Traffic 3. Look at your Target area and turn or go straight with gentle acceleration. When we went to the parking lot exit, you pressed the accelerator and failed to stop and Yield before entering the street, I had to utilize the Instructor brake to stop the car. I reminded you we HAVE to Yield when exiting a parking lot and check the traffic. So I explained this again and showed you the diagram, again.


We proceed to the country neighborhood so you can practice driving straight at the proper speed 25 mph [not 15 mph]. Driving straight is much easier than turning. So again we returned back to the school through another parking lot and again, you do not retain what I had taught you about exiting a parking lot, you pressed the gas to turn onto the street and FAILED TO YIELD, which again, I had to use the Instructor brake.

Your Mom told me that you have not practiced much due to your father traveling so much for work.
Driving takes study, knowledge of the Traffic Laws and courage. I hope you find what you need. It takes 4 hours of home practice between lessons in order to build skill and confidence, which is the same for learning a musical instrument – Home Practice of 30 hours is Mandated by the State. There is much more to study in the Handbook after the basic written exam is passed and the Learner's License is obtained.

We do not simply take your money and let you move the car around the streets and turn wide or use improper speeds (like some other driving schools do). We want you to be a safe and lawful driver. If we did not train you to look where you are supposed to look and control the car safely and lawfully, we would not be doing our job. Your responsibility is to study and know the Traffic laws and practice at home, instead of simply showing up for more lessons without practice.

I am not sure how long you have lived in the United States, but I suggest waiting another year or two to watch your parents drive on US Roadways so that you can have a greater understanding before you begin car training.

Please watch your parents drive any time they are taking you somewhere, Avoid getting on your cell phone, so that you can watch how they handle maneuvers and watch other good and bad motorists.

Thank you so much Mrs. Arceneaux for your feedback on our lessons - Classroom & Car - with your daughter. Thank you for the 10-Stars! You also did a great job by spreading out the lessons in order to her to obtain the 4-hours of home practice to allow the skill building and experience, which gives the confidence on all the roadways - Neighborhood, City, Highway and Freeway. Congratulations on your retirement from being a Chauffeur for your teens! Stay safe and always buckle up for safety!

Thank you and congratulations on obtaining your Texas Driver's License. You are now free to roam about the county! You did a great job of spreading out your lessons to enable you to get the home practice essential to building skill and confidence. You were also a very studious classroom student and completed your worksheets for traffic laws and safety along with attentiveness to all the videos we watched during the 16 classroom lessons! Stay safe and alert, always follow the law and always Buckle Up for Safety!

Thank you for your kind expression of gratitude and satisfaction for your daughter's driving training. Thank you for the support you gave her by allowing the 30 hours of home parent practice, which makes all the difference in building their skill and confidence. My goal in training teens is to make them smarter, sharper and more safe than those motorists that they will be sharing the roads with. Stay safe always and I know you will - but a simple reminder - Wear Your Seat Belt Every Drive!

Thank you! You were a conscientious and hard working student; listening well and trusting the methods of learning. I hope you enjoy your new driver's license and your freedom to roam about the country to all the places you want to see. Always follow the law and wear your seat belt. Stay Safe!

First, most all students have various levels of anxiety when it comes to learning to drive. Various reasons include: some have not been watching their parents drive due to using their cell phone while being taken to their activities since middle school, so looking out from the driver’s seat to the road can be overwhelming to them. Others have never had an adult coaching them in any activity (sports, musical instruments, theatre, etc.), so there is a lack of trust which can cause unnecessary nervousness and a lack of following the methods of training when it comes to turning and lane changing.

The reason I explain to the student that I have been teaching for 19 yrs is to assure them (not belittle them) that this new method of target turning, which I am teaching them and the new blind spot mirrors settings are successful methods for control and safety. I reassure them that I have an Instructor brake and that I will not allow them to hit anything, so I need them to focus on learning how to turn and park on their first lesson. On Lesson 1, I keep them in a low-stress environment-the parking lot, so that we go slowly on the Eye-Hand-Foot coordination, which takes repetition and time to build this skill.

These new turning methods do not make sense to them, but all of driving is new to them and these are methods developed by a man in Houston who had 35 years of driver training, owned 7 driving schools, trained in the army and was on the Rice University Football team and coached football at Houston Memorial. So he knows what type of training is required to instill in young people the proper habits in order to be a safe and lawful driver. He trained me and over 750 instructors in the Greater Houston area. Remember this is ‘training’ not just learning to move a car from one place to another, which is what another local school does and I know, because several of their students have transferred here, and all of them had 1. Low confidence, 2. Weak turning skills, so I had to spend 2 lessons helping them learn how to turn properly; they could not perpendicular park, etc. A few had completed all 7 lessons at ADS, and still did not feel confident, so they came to our school and we gave them practical training so now they drive confidently in all environments including the freeway/Tollway, which 98% of students are afraid of the freeway lesson.

Many new students learning to turn tend to look straight ahead or down in front of the car, or they look at their hands or look around the parking lot for cars because they are scared, instead of looking where I am training them to look, which is at their path of travel. I do not want the student to ‘waste their lesson’ by looking in spaces that are not helping them control their turns or perpendicular parking.

So thank you for your feedback, I guess I will not use that phrase since it can be misinterpreted. However, I hope that as a parent, if you feel something was not handled the way you expected, you could contact me personally so I could address the specific incident or issue and explain what the goal in training was. So I am in the dark on what is causing your unhappiness and I do not know how many lessons your student has taken. The higher speed environments can cause anxiety, but they have to learn how to obtain the proper speed. They get accustomed to the new speeds pretty quickly, but it can be scary for some, but, I am there for safety and assistance.

So if your expert opinion seems to work for you, then I hope you find an Instructor that matches what you need. I find your statement directing others to ‘Don’t come here’ very rude and judgmental. Let others establish their own opinion. Students trained at our school have a 98% passing rate on the DPS Road test. One of the students scored a 100% at the DPS Road Test. I train them to think like an adult driver and to build experience that gives them confidence.

Thank you Dean. You worked very hard to study and learn safe driving maneuvers. Keep driving safe and always follow the laws to stay safe.

Hannah you were a very humble student and willing to learn and improve on each lesson with car control skills and knowledge of the Traffic Laws and Defensive Driving Awareness. I am so joyful that you did an EXCELLENT job on your Road Test that you took with us. Your focus level, control and awareness achieved a great training retention - and you got your parallel parking completed with determination! Keep driving Safe and Lawful!

Thank you so much and you did your part by allowing so many good hours of home practice - this makes a huge difference in building their skills!

Dear unknown parent - We are sorry that you experienced something you felt was not right. If you would be so kind as to send us a private email on the issue we would greatly appreciate it. We are still a new business and are CONTINUALLY trying to improve our lessons structure and our customer service. If we do not learn what we did incorrectly, we can't change it. So please take the time to help us improve. And again, we apologize. Sincerely.
Issues on website/scheduling: We have spent 100's of hours designing our site to include both TDLR and DPS State requirements so that the parent has access to this info while they navigate through Driver's Ed as it has changed enormously from years past.
On the Lessons: We have only 7 lessons to prepare and train the student to be able to obtain skills for all roadway environments and be able to pass the DPS Road Test. So the State's mandated 30 hours of practice is essential to the success of each lesson. If the student does not obtain sufficient practice, we are unable to move them to the next environment, and then this puts them a lesson behind, which some parents can't afford to pay for extra lessons. So this is not like a musical instrument in which they take weekly lessons for a year - we have ONLY 7 lessons of training.
The biggest issue we face with students is lack of practice. Also, many parents are unaware of this issue- that in that the past 8 years, students have been using their cell phones while they are being chauffeured to school and their activities which causes them to not be watching their parent drive, not watching signs/signals and pavement markings, not watching the safe and unsafe drivers in front of them. So we have to do some 'major' catching up with observation of signs/signals and pavement markings, this also adds a greater level of anxiety to the student, because now when they get behind the wheel and look at the road - for the first time - they are extremely anxious. I spend 1/3 of my time 'calming them down' and reminding them that I have an Instructor Brake on my side and I will protect them from hitting anything, so stay focused on building your skills.
Sadly, I inherit multiple students from 'Parent Taught' who have experience collisions - and now they are too scared to drive - so we have to overcome this and it takes a long time for them to 'learn proper technique' for turning and lane changing that they did not obtain with parent taught lessons. Some students have been with other teen drivers who crashed their car, so now they don't want to drive, have no interest and are EXTREMELY anxious during the lessons - so we talk about the collision-causes and how to avoid this and 'train them with safe habits' for control and defensive driving.
Along with a Supervisor Teacher License for Driver's Ed, I also hold a License for Driving Safety Instructor and Drug and Alcohol Driving Awareness Program. We teach the Drug/Alcohol in our classroom lessons for two days so that they learn these dangers.
39,885 people die annually on our roadways due to law violations and ignorance. That is 110 people EVERY DAY. - 4 Main factors: Drunk Driving, Excessive Speed, No Seat Belt and on the extreme rise, Cell phone distraction. That is why this is TRAINING, it is hard work and skill building and strict focus on the visual and steering control. So we take our training very seriously.
So I hope this helps explain our perspective and our goal to inform parents, (we've improved our phone answering questions) train the students on the proper skills. We can't beat around the bush on anything due to the issues I have explained.
Again, hopefully you can explain to us the issue so that we can change it - the public can't change it.
Also I learned from my college professor a lot, but two main points on this:
"Praise in Public and 'Punish in Private", which goes along way to improve things
AND
"The Biggest Room in the World, is the Room for Improvement".
Thank you.

Thank you!

Maie, Please remember, you are an older adult (over 38 yrs) and have not driven a car in 10 or more years and have not been a student being taught by a coach/teacher.
You asked us for highway instruction, yet you could not maintain your lane while turning 10 mph in a parking lot? Then you said you were confused. I said, I am not going to allow you to drive on the wrong side of the road! You controlled the car fine in the Neighborhood (30 mph) and City (45 mph). We then we went to the highway (65 mph), per your request and I had to repeatedly advise you to increase your speed to 60-65 mph so that we did not impede traffic.
Impeding traffic is illegal and unsafe. I understand you were nervous, and reassured you to stay focused on the center path and to not look at other lanes of traffic as this does not help you control your car safely. You had requested the 'Highway Lesson as Lesson No. 2'. Your anxiety seems to be due to lack of consistent 'city' driving practice since our first lesson. It takes 30 hours of practice and 2-3 months of consistent practice in order to build experience and skill and without this, the higher speed roadways are more stressful which is why you ignored my coaching on multiple things because you were overwhelmed. I am unable to control a student's anxiety.

Thank you Mr. Reddy for your review. Yes, he started fine, but as you learned the home practice is essential in building skill and confidence. You did a great job allowing more practice and 'boom' his confidence, alertness and skills improved tremendously. Keep encouraging him as you have and just allow him to drive everywhere you take him. Thank you.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give thanks. Also so happy your daughter contacted us to resolve the DPS Clerk's confusion on students who 'aged out' of the teen education, since they were both passed 18 yrs old and are not required to obtain the 7 Lessons to take the road exam, but are issued an Insurance Discount Certificate. You did an AWESOME job by allowing them all those practice days!!! Good Job Mom!!

Sir, we ALWAYS use turn signals on lane changes, we ALWAYS check the rearview mirror to ensure that we see the passed vehicle in the rearview mirror prior to the lane change, and simply because a motorist is in a lane, does not mean that someone is not allowed to move into the lane in front of your vehicle. Also after a consulted with the instructor, I believe it was you that tried to illegally push through a merging point southbound on Anderson Mill when there was a Warning Sign-yellow diamond and pavement markings that showed 'your lane' was ending. You continued to force your vehicle into the side space near our car nearly hitting our car while you were speeding up to jump in front of us, which was dangerous and immature! So be mindful that we have 18 years of experience and see immature drivers, such as yourself, daily. So please kindly remove this unnecessary comment and rating.

Dear D'Souza Family,

Thank you for your thoughts regarding my services.

My demeanor towards your son was due to the fact that I observed him on multiple occasions during class when he was 'playing' on his phone, talking and disrupting his neighbor. You both signed a contract agreeing to following the rules of the classroom. Correcting a student is a teacher's responsibility. If we ignore disruptions, then the students are controlling the class and learning time of others who have paid tuition for this education. It is my responsibility to manage the disruptions. It seems that he did not take my first correction seriously, as he continued choosing to do his own thing, which resulted in another correction and I had to take away his phone (toy) again which is my job. The Driver's Ed curriculum is strenuous with a lot of material to cover, so as you mentioned to me that your son has a learning impairment, please understand, this is not a modified course. His behaviors of disruption and complaining are 2 of the 15 signs of a struggling student. This curriculum has a lot of lectures in the daily classes and I see plenty of other students with pen and paper taking notes to study.

Learning the traffic laws-signs and safety is very serious business and I take it seriously. Each day in the US, 110 people lose their lives due to broken traffic laws and mismanaging their car, and 2,476 of those are teens. So when it comes to educating our youth, I take it VERY seriously and do not allow teens to act with disruption in my class. They need every word of information they can get. This is a training class, not an elective.

I receive numerous thanks from parents regarding my teaching and my students have a 99% passing rate on their DPS Road Exam. Recently a student received a 100 on their road exam! One DPS Evaluator told one of my students and I quote, "You are driving so well that I don't feel like you are testing but simply driving me around."

Regarding parents, I receive numerous phone calls daily with questions on teens requirements. Which is why I have invested 300 hours and many more, (as I change it monthly to reduce confusion) in creating the website that has ALL the information that parents and students need in order to register and take classes and obtain a TX Driver's License according to the DPS and TDLR requirements, also listed on my website even though they have their own websites of information. I created a type of menu, same as a restaurant, to make it simple for the busy parents to obtain all the information that is essential. There are annual changes in this industry's requirements and I continually update my site's information to assist parents in the continual evolving state requirements.

What is the purpose of your complaint? To help other consumers understand what? That this is a driver's ed classroom curriculum and not modified. Please do not point fingers and blame me for your son's learning impairment and boredom. I have a BBA in Business Administration, a Minor in Business and Secondary Education, a State Teacher's certification for Life in Basic Business, taught Accounting I & II and Consumer's Math and hold a Supervisor Trainer's License with TDLR and have been training and teaching student's in Driver's Ed for 18 years, have Driving Safety Instructor License, and a Motorcycle License. In class, I draw diagrams on the white board to ensure that the students understand lawful intersection use and numerous other points of Traffic Safety and I administer a quiz weekly for education retention. I understand that students have varied ways of learning which are Auditory, Visual and Kinesthetic, so I speak, draw and train them.

Your daughter did not attend my school, so legally she is not qualified to write a review, which is fraud, so I kindly ask you to please remove it. I really don't want to talk to an attorney about pursuing a fraudulent review. Thank you.

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

We apologize for the miscommunications you encountered this day. We were simply asking a clarifying question: "Does he have the actual license vs just the class certificate?" Numerous occasions a student will show up with the Classroom Certificate instead of a TX Learners License, in which we are unable to let them drive behind the wheel. A student must have their Learners License with them during all lessons in the car. If they fail to bring their License, this could incur a No Show fee, which is what we were trying to explain to you prior to your hanging up on us. This was during the escalation of Covid-a stressful time for all humans on the earth in June 2020.

Very happy to know your son is driving safe and lawful AND that you are feeling less anxiety when you are his passenger! Hopefully he can pass on a few defensive driving tips to your older son. Continue driving Alert with SEE (Scan, Evaluate, Execute the Law or Safety!) Thanks for expressing your customer satisfaction!

Mrs. Rima, so glad that your daughter's driving skills were strengthened and improved at Stonepoint. I am so glad you found us and that we made this process less 'hectic' for you and your student driver. So glad for the progress she made. Keep driving defensively and belted! Thanks for this wonderful review!

Thank you Adam and I am happy to hear you were pleased with the school. I do work very hard to keep parents informed of all the changes in state licensing. You did a great job in spreading out the lessons to allow adequate skill-building home practice with parents. He had a 4+ evaluation on his DPS practice test! Great job!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.