Do we stop teaching people too soon? @Sue Marsden
It's exactly this frustration that made me invent a Training Officer post in our branch, and fill it with myself. That way I have a legitimate reason to pursue all learners in the branch and offer them bespoke, targetted practices where we try to understand their issues and give them the right type of help.
Most of the practices have been at the lower end, up to pb5, g5, but we have done treble bobbing and on request we have had one royal/triples, and a few times a year it's been Core7 (including people who are just beginning Y and C8).
Of course I have to organise the practices, which is quite a lot of work and not easy when you are a procrastinator like me. I've booked in advance 4 towers every other month, so that's 2 practices a month to sort out. Mostly Saturday mornings. I try to get really good helpers but sometimes there aren't enough available, and standards have to slip a bit - you just have to work with what you've got.
Because I ask for people all across the branch, it does have the added benefit of getting ringers from different towers to meet and get to know each other. I know some of them have been inspired to take exercises back with them to try out at their tower as well. It's also an opportunity to encourage different people to try leading a practice. We get good feedback from learners.
It's not enough of course, it's never enough! Ideally there'd be something every week at a central, dedicated training tower, with high grade helpers and properly ART trained leads.