... that's what I'd call that dump down in Santa Monica. I went down there several years back to look into getting my CFI. They put me with some old tool who thought his Sh!t didn't stink because he was a mechanic for evergreen and apparently the only idiot with enough experience to teach a CFI. He wanted to "check" my knowledge to see if I was capable of doing a CFI in a couple of weeks. So, he gave me this GK (general knowledge) session that lasted a couple of hours, and taught me nothing. Then charged me $250 for it. Needless to say, I gave that place the finger, and never went back. You'd be better off going to a Mom-and-Pops flight school, where they won't at least pretend to be something they are not...

Good Luck