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2019 Time Magazine Takes COBRA Active Shooter Class

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Module 21-The Proper Use of Student Instructors

by Scot Conway, Esquire

The $25,000 Volunteers

Excerpt from the Martial Arts Instructor Certification Course:

Using upper ranks to teach classes has been a long-standing martial arts tradition. But, is it legal?

A California instructor had his black belts teaching under-rank classes at his studio. In exchange, he no longer charged them tuition.

This continued until one fateful day when the owner and a black belt student had a disagreement.

The vindictive student contacted the California Labor Board and reported that his instructor had been employing assistants by requiring that they teach classes each week.

This can constitute an Employer – Worker relationship. The only thing missing was payment for the workers and the taxes the government would collect if they were being paid.

The State of California investigators concluded that the owner, over the years, had a total of 25 black belts teach classes.

They defined them as uncompensated employees, which is illegal under the laws of California, and fined the instructor $1,000 per incident.

The final bill: $25,000 for the volunteers.

Lesson: Know your state laws regarding utilizing assistant instructors.

Time magazine writer Abby Vesoulis attended a COBRA Active Shooter training taught by MATA 2018 Instructor of the Year Sidney Burns in Lynchburg, VA.

Excerpt: The succession of tragedies has prompted more and more Americans to take special precautions, for themselves as well as their children. Sales of certain bullet-resistant backpacks spiked 200% to 300% following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio this month. And the popularity of active-shooter training classes like this one outside Lynchburg, Va., has surged too.

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MATA Instructor of the Year Sidney Burns and Staff Graduated the MATA Certification Course

Read the Time magazine article here:

What It’s Like to Attend an Active-Shooter Training After the El Paso and Dayton Attacks

 

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