It’s totally understandable that you’re frustrated about the wait time, class cost, and repeated class cost.
All those reasons and more are why we’re trying to take it mainly online. It should allow us to have a higher throughput of students while also holding members to specific standards that they will explicitly test out on.
If there is a re-test, It would be short, free, and online only.
In many professional organizations, people are required to retake basic training every 6-12 months in order to make sure the rules stay fresh. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to do the same in our environment with so many dangerous tools that members use infrequently.
We constantly have issues with lots of damaged and improperly used equipment. We have had minimal injuries so far, thankfully. But it would only take one major injury to put the space in a bad place financially, so we should be doing everything we can to mitigate that risk.