Home training — Connecticut Permit Test

A home training instructor must be at least 20 years old and have held a license for four or more years, unsuspended through that period.

The same bar the state sets for a paid instructor. A recently licensed older sibling does not clear it.

Applicants for home training must train with an instructor who is at least 20 years of age or older, and who has held a license for four or more years prior to training, which has not been suspended during the four year period.

Home training may be given by a parent, foster parent or legal guardian, grandparent, or the spouse of a married minor applicant.

The list is closed. A family friend willing to teach is not on it, however good a driver they are.

Home training may be done by one of the following people: • Parent

If none of the first group is available, home training may be given by an uncle or aunt, a brother or sister, or a stepparent, provided that person is qualified.

The second list only opens when the first is empty, which stops a teen picking the most lenient relative.

If the applicant has none of the above, providing the person is qualified, home training may be done by:

The home instructor signs a statement at the road test confirming the learner held a permit and completed at least 30 hours of course study, including the 8-hour Safe Driving Practices class.

The signature is the only record the state has of home study. Without it the hours simply did not happen.

The home instructor must sign a statement at the time of the road test, which states that the applicant has obtained a learner's permit and successfully completed at least 30 hours of course study, including an 8-hour Safe Driving Practices class at a Connecticut commercial driving or secondary school.

Home training must cover all of the material in this manual.

A relative teaching only what they remember leaves gaps, and the paper is written from the whole book.

The home training course must cover all of the material in this manual

The eight-hour course includes a minimum of four hours on alcohol and drugs, their effects on a driver, and the penalties for drug and alcohol related violations.

Half the course is spent on the one thing that kills most new drivers. The state fixed that half in hours.

an approved eight-hour course that includes a minimum of four hours on the:

A 16- or 17-year-old already licensed in another state still has to take the eight-hour course to be licensed in Connecticut.

A license from elsewhere does not carry the Connecticut teen course with it, and the state will not license without it.

This eight-hour course requirement is also necessary for 16- and 17-year-old licensed drivers from out-of-state who wish to obtain a license in Connecticut.

What is the minimum age of a Connecticut home training instructor?

20 years of age. The same bar the state sets for a paid instructor. A recently licensed older sibling does not clear it. Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.6: “Applicants for home training must train with an instructor who is at least 20 years of age or older, and who has held a license for four or more years prior to training, which has not been suspended during the four year period.”