that's garbage, always plead not guilty and get a lawyer to take care of it; they should drop it down to a non-moving violation ($120-150 with no points on your license). But of course a traffic school will tell you not to fight it, that's where police stations make a lot of their $$$ from; tickets. My buddy got 10 tickets last summer and pled not-guilty to all of them; all except maybe 1 or 2 were lowered to non-moving violations. I'm in NY though so maybe it's different in other states (like CA that i've heard is pretty tough).