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Originally Posted by shakran
Fine, but if a job opens up that's looking for the pilot that can learn new flying concepts the fastest, then OBE-based (or teaching to mastery-based if you prefer) flight instruction would hamper the chances of the good flight student because even though she passed all the checkrides 100% the first time, and her competition took 20 times to do it, that's not reflected in the final grade.
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I meant to put this into the original post, but it would be easy to have the grades reflect the time it takes you to finish. High schools in my area had pretty close to 40 week years. There are 8 marks from A+ to C (A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C) so you could have a letter grade drop every five weeks you are in the course. If it takes you all forty weeks(the whole year) to get through the course then you get a C, average. If you don't manage to pass in a year you continue the following year having 20 weeks to finish before you end up with an F. Whenever you do get through it you could get a P indicating you finished it just took you a long time, but for GPA purposes it would still be counted as an F.
Putting in a life skills class I think would be a good idea. My high school did have a required Home Ec. class but there was much more they could have added into it to make it more useful. I wasn't really aware there were schools that didn't have it at all. For us it was a graduation requirement, there was no getting out of it.