I never said it was correct, just what a certain school did. Climbing turns, descending turns, spirals to loose height were not part of their syllabus. The CFI also hated side slipping.
The lax behaviour at YMMB soon boiled down for the ab initial student to : “aim for this factory, then turn to follow xxx road, then yyyy road, aim for vegetable gardens, then golf clubhouse, etc., etc.” Nothing useful was taught about visual cues apart from “put the strut on the runway, about 45 degrees’ to the point that I still have trouble judging turning points on short narrow strips and that has cost me $$ in go around and overlong final approaches to compensate.