DukeAMO
Contributor
There are a lot of scubaboard haters out there. Maybe the concern is that you'll listen to what you hear online, at the expense of listening to your instructor(s). Scubaboard posters can also be very hard on instructors.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the closest to the truth. If the instructor thought your brother was only trying to dive to impress you, the instructor would want you out of the room to pull your brother aside and figure out how he really felt. Your brother may not want to tell you that he was doing it for you, but he wasn't really ready. Giving up on something like that can definitely make a teen cry, even if it's his own choice.
It came as a surprise to me when, about half way through, the instructor ordered me to leave the pool room for the remainder of the lesson. According to my wife, after I left the instructor took my brother aside and had a whispered conversation with him. When they met me at the car my brother was crying and he continued to cry for the entire drive home. He has never spoken about it again. When asked he says that he can't remember what was said. All he knows is that he failed. I received no information from the instructor other than it was his belief that my brother only wanted to dive because I do.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the closest to the truth. If the instructor thought your brother was only trying to dive to impress you, the instructor would want you out of the room to pull your brother aside and figure out how he really felt. Your brother may not want to tell you that he was doing it for you, but he wasn't really ready. Giving up on something like that can definitely make a teen cry, even if it's his own choice.