A review by charlottesometimes
Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

This is presented as a teen horror, but secretly it’s a 200 page lecture. Apparently some schools in the USA use this as a teaching aid, which is worrying.
It also features some genuinely horrible parents; physically threatening people at a teen sports game, and bullying their child into taking part; commenting on the sexiness of their daughter’s potential boyfriend, which they noticed as soon as he passed puberty; smothering their daughter, whilst forcing her to basically run the household on their behalf like a mini-mum; deciding that they no longer love their children the moment they do something wrong, and telling them so; just being terrible, self-obsessed people with zero empathy and a tendency to drama. Just very poor. The best thing these kids can do is leave this oppressive small town and its creepy church folk behind as fast as possible.