Sorry to continue to rant, but I remembered another wonderful instance of the new philosophy of the training pipeline.
As some of you know, at Prototype they now have qualified staff instructors go basically "TAD" up stairs to give checkouts all day to students. Initially it is supposed to be a good deal because it gets you off of shift work and onto a normal days routine for 7 weeks. You give checkouts to the brand new students and they all want the same basic ones. No big deal. Well during our first day they tell us how everything works, what they want from us, etc. One of the very first things the ETC up there told us was make sure you ask the students locations of stuff on the boat to ensure they go down to the boat. If they haven't been down to the boat, then they aren't ready for the checkout and kick them out of the checkout. Ok fair enough. I take this to heart and many upon many students felt I was being unfair that I was booting them for not going down to the boat. Well at the end of the 7 weeks, the students give feedback to the Off crew group about the temp instructors. Well since I had a torn ACL and couldn't stand watch I got elected to make a return appearance to the 7 week program the very next cycle. When I went to talk to the ETCM that was the head guy in the Off Crew group(the same guy who was PMC as above) he sat me down and read two feedbacks from students about how they hated to get checkouts from me and that I kept booting some of them out of checkouts. So he proceeds to tell me that I should tone down my checkouts, not ask as many questions, and not to harp so much on locations of things. He also tells me that the reason for my low numbers of checkouts(we actually had a quota that we had to meet each week) was because I wasn't doing checkouts fast enough(when actually I was gone for about 6 hours every week due to physical therapy for my knee). Well of course I was a little ticked at this point until I read the REST of the feedback in which there were at least 5 feedbacks that were positive, most to the effect that yes I more difficult than some to get a checkout from but that they learned the most from me.
Now I realize this was just one guy(the ETCM) saying this, but when I brought it up to the ETC after I got blackballed by the ETCM(I wasn't allowed to to give checkouts to students who were severly behind the curve or that weren't exactly the sharpest ones), he basically blew me off and said that "That is just the way it is up here." Even got talked to about my failure to meet quota by the civilian guy that was in charge of the off crew phase.
So Gamecock, I hope that this sheds some light on why I(and many others) feel that the mentality is "get them through, no matter what". Sorry to be so crast, but when you get told several times how to train a student by people that never have to deal with them again even though you do(Off Crews main focus was get them ahead of the curve by as much as possible and make sure they pass the exam at the end of 7 weeks, if they are broke let the crews fix them.), you get a little burned at the end.