El Tejon,
Communication is the key.
One place I assised, there was more than one instructor.
From retired SWAT, to Ladies, to a Gunsmith/ former ISPC shooter for starters.
These folks also Communicated with other Instructors, out of town, even out of state.
CCW and Training is NOT "US vs Them" . Sure instructors have to make a few bucks to conduct business, cover expenses, money should NOT be their only priority.
There is more than one way to teach something, should be, because everybody is different, and learns differently.
Toss the pride and ego out the window, and work for the common good. WE did. One fellow called up and said he had an all Ladies class, first time for him, and 3 of our ladies, licensed to teach, ran down to assist him in his class, and one lady lawyer ran down with them, to do the legal part.
They had a ball! Later some of the ladies came up our way to say thanks, say hello, and sent folks they knew local to us for CCW.
When trainers get together for a Summit, trainers are there for the student. Trainers young and old do their two hour blocks, and they too learn from each other. They communicate with each other and the student.
SWAT fellow knew revolvers, one of the ladies knew revolvers as well she is the Queen of the J Frame. One student had a problem getting a concept, more than one way to assist. This lady just could not "see" the concept. Gunsmith/IPSC shooter and I watching and listening, noticed something. It was a small thing, just IPSC pointed it out to me, and then he chimed in and it worked.
Like anything else, be it retail business, lawyers, insurance agents, or car mechanics. Folks spend money to advertise to get customers. It costs $____ for each customer that come in the door. Negative reviews - no way to put a dollar value on lost customers, spreading that advertising to others.
Students need to communicate, if need be, file a report with governing dept that oversees CCW. Lawyers do so, as do other professions with their governing bodies.
Instructors need to communicate with each other as well. They should be anyway as I view it, not only for CCW, also for RKBA and other common goals.
I mean an instructor may learn a teaching method from another instructor, not that his method was wrong, just now another tool in the toolbox for teaching.
Another example, I took the call from a Scrub Tech, that said she was be getting off work at 7am, and be coming to 8am class straight from work. I know this work, I know what it is like to be in class at 8am after being up 12 hours on this shift. "I'd kill for fresh fruit for breakfast" she said. Fine. Restrooms clean, towels and washcloths, and I had fruit bowls for breakfast.
When she called, she heard the Black Lab bark. "Is that a dog?" she asked, I told her it was a black lab, and we had a golden retriever that assisted in classes too. She brought dog treats when she showed up. Dogs has a newest bestest friend that morning. These dogs were really good at making newest bestest friends.
We had listened to each other. Communicated. She was blown away at being able to freshen up, with a clean restroom, towels and washcloths, and had her fruit.
She told a girlfriend in another state. Girlfriend told her instructor she had gotten her CCW from, and that instructor incorporated that idea with his students. They too were having a run of ladies, working in hospitals, getting CCW. He and his wife was so busy getting fruit bowls for a class of these ladies, just getting off work, they forgot the blue training guns they used, but hey, a teenager can show up and bail out a mom and dad that cannot remember training guns for a CCW class.
It is all good, nobody is more "right" or "wrong" - just sometimes not the presentation , but how presented.
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