I fly with beatscfiing regularly and am in the same program, taking my CFI ride in 6 days...

I completely disagree with the weather minumums as well, as in my training we routinely went up with strong winds (as much as 60kts at 3000, doing holding...that was a fun day let me tell you...) and with the t/o weather at 300 and 1 or sometimes less. I did do my instrument rating with this program, but back then our flight training was outsourced to another 141 school through the local FBO. There were never any issues and I consider myself a better instrument pilot because I experienced LOTS of actual IMC BEFORE my checkride. Now that we have our own 141 certification, things have changed a bit, and in my opinion for the worse.
Thanks to all who replied, especially those already in the business. It's nice to know that the two of us aren't completely off our rockers on this topic and that others think the situation is ridiculous as well.

Your CptSpeaking