How to Find a Home Study Traffic School

If you ever received a speeding ticket, you probably attended traffic school to keep points off your driving record and avoid higher insurance rates. Traffic school is often a four-hour ordeal experienced in close proximity to about 40 other people who clearly wish they were somewhere else. These days you can find a home study traffic school program and complete it by yourself, any hour of the day or night.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Search for websites advertising home study traffic school and look for phrases like "state-approved". Before signing up for any kind of traffic school, online or off, call your local courts and make sure they're an acceptable way of meeting the requirements in your area. Sometimes they'll say no and sometimes you'll just have to get special permission to pursue the online option.

2. Acquire proof for your courts the traffic school program you've selected is approved. While attending traffic school on the computer is a relatively new concept, the internet has plenty of sites to help you find such programs. Interestingly, many are headquartered in California, but most offer schools for several different states.

3. Choose a program that work best for you. Some courses allow you to complete the final exam online. Others require you to take the exam in the presence of a notary who must then notarize it. For those without a reliable computer, some companies offer booklet courses which are then completed by snail mail rather than online.

4. Research prices for home study traffic schools. Most are affordable, ranging from $9.95 to $50, depending on your location. Some will let you try the first section free before enrolling. Some advertise that you'll pass the final or you won't have to pay at all.

5. Consider a comedy traffic school. These "laugh and learn" programs are available both online and off and could revolutionize the whole traffic school experience. Be sure to get permission from your area courts before choosing this option.

Tips & Warnings

• Home study traffic schools are also available in Spanish from Spanishgototrafficschool.com.

• If you received a more serious offense than a regular traffic incident, or if you've already had another infraction, a home study traffic school may not be an option. Check with your court system before enrolling in a home study traffic school.

Resources

• Improv Comedy Traffic School
• Spanish traffic school