aceupmysleeve777
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I have emailed my instructor outlining the fact that I we need to go over my knowledge reviews (which we have failed to look at at all and I have been in the class for over a month), he says acedemics will come in time and I am to continue studying my course materials. He was also prepared to offer me more work assisting with more open water classes this weekend. The fact that we will not be going over my actual DM classwork disapoints me but I will use the opportunity this weekend to discuss my issues and hopefully develop a positive level of communication where we can start working on my class itself and stop the continuous assisting with OW divers. Of course assisting with classes is im sure part of the curiculum, I still feel that my own acedemics should be reviewed, especially after I have already been doing class work for over a month. I hope things go well this weekend, its looks like I have some hard work ahead of me but keeping a positive outlook is all I have left now.
Hopefully this will get better from here on for you. Like others have said this class takes months unless your getting a rubber stamp cert and nobody will hire you once they see you in action if done that way. I think your on the right track with talking to the instructor, I was aiming on the side of not jumping to the your getting screwed side but it does worry me that they want you to keep diving, diving, diving even with classes and you still haven't done the book work with the instructor. Usually they want to make sure you know what your talking about before they let you around students that are asking you questions. If this is a PADI class and things fall apart from here contact them and let them know the whole story. People like to talk crap about PADI but they get real serious real fast with this type of thing.