Amador County high school freshmen will now be getting a driver’s education in school. State law had deemed that schools must offer driver’s education classes in school and the Amador County Unified School District joined that requirement this semester by offering driver’s education in the freshman health classes. The school board of directors on Wednesday received a report from Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, who told of the new classes. She said the class would supplement the private instruction students were getting. The class will teach things like the affects of drug and alcohol use on driving ability. Chapin-Pinotti and staff surveyed school principals and determined the class should be covered in health classes for freshmen. The driver’s education class will have the required thirty hours of seat time and use the book, “Responsible Driving,” by Glencoe/McGraw Hill, a book already used in classes at Independence High School in Sutter Creek.