I heard someone else mention something earlier today and I agree. At least in Florida, failing students became BIG, BIG business for those "overworked" DE's in the early '90's. I knew one in particular that, I quit using immediately, actually tell us that he started failing for extra money since everyone else did twice as much as he did.

So, this artical about failures is only touching the surface about the truth behind failures and, IMHO, about how much money is in it for those "failing" the applicants. It has very little to do with overall quality of the applicant. Until the FAA rids the multiple sources of training, quality will forever be suspect. I'm sure many others can tell of similar feelings in other states that do mass training.