Grief - calm down folks.
We're mostly aviation professionals in here or aspire to be; in that context checking and having checked everything we do is normal and necessary, it goes on in this bulletin board as well as anybody else (I hope that I'm reasonably well regarded on PPrune for my technical knowledge, yet have been challenged to "prove it" more times than I care to remember - occasionally I've been proven wrong too).
As I posted elsewhere, a week ago a flying school presented me (and I declined to accept) a rental C152 with a lapstrap missing, half the engine cowling fasteners off, a fuel leak into the cockpit and a handful of unwanted screws lying in the back of the aircraft. I've certainly been places where the approved POH (or the tech logs) for an aeroplane seems to be treated as a "privileged access" document and certainly students aren't allowed near it. In that context I've no trouble believing that there are schools whose attitude to training is as poor as it can be to airworthiness - although I've not personally seen anything quite so bad.
What I have seen is schools or clubs who make a lot of attempts to point out to students / renters / members the potential hazards in a proposed flight to allow them to gracefully make the decision to withdraw. It strikes me that pointing out a monstrous CB could have fallen into that bracket, although one would then hope that the student who didn't get the hints would then be "pulled" from the flightline, not allowed to go and risk their neck. I'm also with others in thinking that sending anybody on a QXC without having passed nav, met and air-law is downright irresponsible - albeit possibly a consequence of the mentioned poor record keeping rather than malign intent.
Phoenix should seriously look at changing schools. Equally, I think that if he's not going to be fed it by this or any other school he should be spending time with his nose in the books and asking to take the exams, not waiting to be told what to learn and when. All aviation training involves a fair amount of private study, a PPL is no exception and no aviation student (PPL/ATPL/Engineering/ATC etc.) who can't get the hint and make sure they're up to speed on theory BEFORE they need it ain't going to get very far !
G
N.B. Does anybody remember about 5 years ago a training glider, taking a student up for a trial lesson, being destroyed by a lightning strike out from CB edge less than a mile away. Sorry WWW, but there is at-least one instructor out there that irresponsible.