If they can pass the test then they have no problem...and a crash school can
teach you to pass the test in two weeks.

A&P vocational education in the USA is an unmitigated joke. Many of these
schools are utterly useless , but they do certify you to test. Eighteen months
of attendance and in some cases tens of thousands of dollars for very little
learned skill is what I have seen.

They should get rid of the 18 month school or 30 month experience requirement
and let you test up front for a provisional license, on which an IA has to
inspect all jobs you do for the first three times you sign off that job. They
should also split up turbine and recip engines, and composite, sheetmetal, and
wood/tube/fabric structure into separate ratings. The full AMT rating should
only be given after you have worked on aircraft , and only for relevant work on
the appropriate type. Airline personnel are only annoyed by talk of Ceconite
and museum piece Lycomings.

Maybe some of the community college programs where you get an Associate degree
are not a scam but the commercial programs largely are. We interviewed two
people from one of the commercial schools in Virginia recently and I can tell
you that if I had my car oil changed at Jiffy Lube, if either one of them
worked there, I'd find another location!