First off, some good news. As of mid-May, I was two weeks past my second Covid vaccine shot, which means I am now considered “fully vaccinated”. Hooray! Recently, the CDC has begun to relax mask usage for fully vaccinated people. Modern Driver Institute has updated its own policies as follows:
For students out of high school and over the age of 18: if you are fully vaccinated (two weeks past your second dose of Pfizer or Moderna, or two weeks past your single shot of Johnson and Johnson), please show your CDC vaccination card to your instructor. Upon confirmation, you may drive during your session without a mask. For students under the age of 18 who are still high school students, the Department of Education continues to recommend full mask usage, and so this will be enforced for now, regardless of vaccination status. This may change soon.
Please continue to alert your instructor if you have recently had any covid-like symptoms, or anyone in your household has tested positive for Covid-19.
Also, please be aware that, effective June 1, 2021, Modern Driver Institute prices are changing. This is our first fee increase since 2016, and only the second since we opened doors in 2014. The new prices are listed below:
- Two-hour session fee: $170.00
- Out of service range fee: $30.00 (applied to any student for whom lessons begin and end outside the 25-mile service range).
These increases reflect growing costs involved in providing the exceptional training to which you are accustomed, including increases in fuel costs, insurance fees and maintenance costs for the training vehicle, additional instructor travel time, as well as cost-of-living increases for the instructor.
As has been the rule since we opened in 2014, we do not charge registration or enrollment fees, and we do not practice lesson-sharing – the time you pay for is yours alone.
