Not intending to be rude and start fights, but to me its like teaching people drive in a Ford Focus or in a sports car. I'll take the the Ford any day and twice on Sunday.

"Of course, increasing special light-sport activity has also brought increasing numbers of LSA accidents. What might not have been anticipated is how quickly they’ve increased. There have been 133 in the five years since 2006, when significant numbers of LSAs first began to appear in the accident record. Although the numbers remain too small to bear a great deal of weight, the trend is not entirely encouraging. The 35 that occurred in 2009 made up a little more than 3 percent of that year’s accidents in single-engine piston airplanes, and more than 4 percent of those in fixed-gear piston singles. The estimated accident rate for LSAs in 2009 was likewise about triple that for piston singles in general. The rate estimate is fairly soft; however, the discrepancy is still wide enough to warrant some attention from the airplanes’ operators—not to mention students and instructors."

Also,

"Sport pilot instructors must have 5 hours of PIC in each make and model set before they can teach in that aircraft."

For these supposedly simple airplane that are meant for 20 hour wonders, that rule sounds a lot like this,

"(f) Training received in a multiengine airplane, a helicopter, or a powered-lift. A flight instructor may not give training required for the issuance of a certificate or rating in a multiengine airplane, a helicopter, or a powered-lift unless that flight instructor has at least 5 flight hours of pilot-in-command time in the specific make and model of multiengine airplane, helicopter, or powered-lift, as appropriate."

So now light sports are on the order of multis, helicopters, and powered lift. Yikes. So much for simpler, easier flying.

Yes, absolutely gliders!