I think most pilots or controllers would have a horror story about a run in with a massey student, i was nearly cleaned up be a massey pa-28 leaving an uncontrolled circuit and have heard far worse stories, but thats the same for most schools of a similar size to massey when students basically seem to be units of production (the old sausage factory story) but i guess massey students are exactly that - students who like most students will screw the pooch once or twice. I think alot of students at these places are having a lot of smoke blown up their backsides as to their training and job prospects at the end of it all. Training with a commercial operator i think is a better way to go as you get some exposure to the realities of the industry, but at the end of the day employers will look at where you trained but what you did inbetween that is going to count.