Abbott wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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RST Engineering wrote:
But Dudley, you must admit, sometimes polishing a turd is impossible.

Jim

Either way, the responsibility lies with the instructor. The student is
the workpiece the instructor must complete.



--
Dudley Henriques

This of course assumes the instructor passes everything that comes through
the door. This might work for some instructors. GOOD instructors engage in
an ongoing evaluation of each student they take on. If at ANY time the
GOOD instructor realizes that a specific student isn't developing the
required attitude or attitude change as the case might be, it's incumbent
on the instructor to at that point call in an outside evaluation for that
student; the continuance of instruction to be decided after that
evaluation.
For good CFI's, the question of money or profit doesn't enter the picture
when evaluating a student's attitude toward flying.
There are indeed instructors out here who don't operate this way. For
them, the fact that the student exists on the schedule is a consideration.
Not so for the instructor doing the job properly.
It is admittedily a two way street. Each student must be given the very
best the instructor has to offer. In return, the instructor must DEMAND
the same from the student.
There can indeed come a time with a specific student showing signs of an
"attitude issue" where an instructor should disengage. Some CFI's can do
this, some won't. It's a personal choice for the CFI.
Personally, I have had several students with "bad attitudes" that did not
respond directly to instruction designed to change that attitude. To
eliminate myself as the source of the failure to communicate, I in each
case had the affected student evaluated by another instructor. In every
instance (3 in all) the student was evaluated with an attitude problem by
the second instructor. None of these 3 students were graduated from our
program. I can't speak for their eventual disposition within the training
system.

GOOD CFI's don't graduate students with bad attitudes into the system.



--
Dudley Henriques

You can say more and explain less than a junior high school girl.



Has the fact that people don't seem to be lining up in droves behind you
on these things dawned on you yet?
:-)

--
Dudley Henriques