It's clear from the thread that opinion varies quite widely. Since we can't all be correct in our methodology, it must be the case that lots of students are being badly taught.
I've heard it said that, in general in the UK, stall-spin awareness is an area in which FIs do let down their students. I've certainly met chaps (not FIs) who believe that they can recover from a stall solely with the application of power.........and others who engage in "now-legendary" frantic rudder-paddling in an attempt to prevent any wing drop. In my experience, very few PPLs are comfortable with flight at the lower speeds......so landings are bound to be a bit of a trial, aren't they?
I know that at my school, the 2 hours stall-spin awareness is often severely curtailed and the exercises are skimped in order to rush into the circuit. Appropriate adjustments are then made to the student' records in order to fulfil the criteria for licence issue.
I'd be surprised if my experiences are unusual.
The wider issue is, I think, one of standards. There does prevail, in some schools, a propensity to teach down to a price, rather than up to a standard. This is facilitated by the system of examination for the PPL' syllabus. Far better, in my opinion, to adopt a system more akin to CAAFU.....where the examiner has no commercial interest in the student's outcome.
If an independent examiner regularly found that X's students were complete duffers at low-speed work, there would be an opportunity to address X's deficiencies, I suppose.
Anyone else seen fragrant abuses by "school" examiners? Or perhaps I shouldn't ask.