I think the solution is better enforcement, if instructors are cutting corners, rather than encouraging them to cut more corners by doing an 8 hour class.koolaid wrote:I think if they'd bump the requirement up to a mandatory 15 hours, or drop them down to 8 this problem would stop because they would either be forced to do two day classes, or there would be enough time at the end of normal business hours to take care of the extra stuff. With 10 hours everyone still wants a one day class, but who wants to stay in a classroom for 13 hours in one day...students or instructors? None, apparently.
Alternately, do the written exams online and have randomized tests from a much larger question pool, as previously suggested. Instructors who teach an honest class should have a much higher student pass rate than those who cut corners, and the problem becomes self correcting from word of mouth when students fail and tell all their friends. Even better, make it like the DL with no required class. You can take a class if you like, or self study, but you have to pass the written and practical tests for your initial license. CHL renewals could be done like DL renewals, at a similar price.
And they should make the DL and CHL address changes the same price.