Message #20621

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1. One sentence (and one sentence only    ) on what you mean by not monopolized. Instructors need not be PSIA certified?  Insurance company doesn't require PSIA certifications or standards?  I have no idea how much latitude most ski schools have to run their program.

At our Ski School you do not need to be PSIA Certified. You don't have to be certified. More than half of our instructors are PSIA Certified and higher cert = higher pay. We also have or have had instructors certified by other systems (CSIA, BASI, Swiss, Austrian and USSA are the first ones that come to mind) and those instructors are paid at an equivalent level. For the record, I checked with our SSD and he will pay a PMTS Instructor the same as a PSIA instructor provided that there is a written curriculum available for review.

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btw - our parent company is an insurance company. LOL