These days, if you have gotten a traffic citation or ticket that allows for the attendance of traffic school, you have many options on the ways in which you can attend the class. You may still attend a class in the day or evening that is held at a local traffic school service, comedy traffic school, or even online traffic school. No matter which option you take, as long as you take the course from an accredited traffic school that is recognized by your state and complete the course with a passing grade, you will usually reduce the amount of your citation fine, prevent points from being added to your license, and could even avoid an increase in your insurance premium.
Traffic school is an important part of dealing with serious and minor moving traffic violations. It is easy to forget that when you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle you are not only taking your life into your own hands, but the lives of everyone else out on the road as well. Traffic school is meant to retrain current drivers on the traffic laws and the importance of safety including defensive driving. It is the aim of every traffic school instructor to send drivers back out onto the road with an increased knowledge of traffic rules and laws and to never see those same drivers in their class again!
Currently, the most popular form of traffic school is online traffic school. With an online traffic school, you can take the four hour course online from the comfort of your own home or office while fitting it into your busy schedule. In fact, with most online traffic schools, you can complete one section at a time, logging in and out in case you cannot dedicate a four-hour block of time to complete the course.
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M. Pearl (formerly M. Groh-Gordy) is a former high school and college teacher who has been a traffic school owner and instructor since 1994. Her company, InterActive! Traffic School Online currently serves traffic violators in 6 states. Her column on automobile driving is published weekly in newspapers of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group and/or the online Motorways sections of 14 California publications.
