Soldev wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:49 am I recently completed the most recent Initial TX DPS LTC Instructor course from May 30'th to June 1'st.
They briefly discussed the School Safety Certification Instructor Training Class and only mentioned the following:
1. To qualify you must teach 4 complete LTC courses (classroom and range)
2. There is a 2 year waiting list
3. Many of the DPS instructors were being laid off on June 1st (our range qualification day) and being forced into retirement,
so the wait periods would likely increase due to the reduction of staffing of DPS trainers.
I'm not an instructor, and have not researched, the requirements, to become one, but it sounds to me like the demand, to become an instructor, and the requisite, recertification, far outweighs, the supply.
Why can't the training, be done in the private sector? I'm sure to get that done would require Legislative action, but if the DPS is actually reducing the number, of instructors, at a time when the demand, for not only LTC instructors, but LTC students, is increasing exponentially, that this is creating, an unnecessary, bottleneck, and may make it much more difficult for people to acquire their LTC.
If the private sector, could train instructors, it could free up the DPS, to only act as administrators, and auditors, while expanding, the instructor pool.
This is just a thought, as an uninitiated, outside observer, so if my suggestion, is out of line, please ignore it.