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Study groups to help immigrants prepare for their written driver’s license exam are becoming popular in the community, with “students” feeling more optimistic that they are equipped to pass the test.
Every Tuesday between 5 and 8 p.m., instructors from the Community Economic Development Center provide them with a simplified version of the Massachusetts driver’s manual, which says on its first pages that obtaining a license in Massachusetts is a “privilege.”
The students, many of whom arrive directly from their workplaces, some accompanied by their young children, enjoy a slice of pizza and a soda before getting to work.
For three hours they review their notes, answer questions that might appear on the real exam, and learn about the operation of cars, traffic laws, and different types of traffic signs. Classes usually end after 8 p.m., but someone always stays to ask more questions.
They know that they have worked hard and that by studying hard they will be able to pass the exam and achieve the dream of obtaining a driver’s license to drive without fear and, as they themselves say, “come out of anonymity.”
Email Gerardo Beltrán Salinas at gerardo@newbedfordlight.org
Just what we need, more illegal immigrants driving, and I’m willing to bet 50% of them won’t have insurance coverage, if one has an accident with me, they’re going to wish they were back in their own country instead of ruining everything in the South Coast area!!!