The purpose of arranging lessons is to facilitate a focused, extensive, one-to-one discussion between student and teacher. Such an interaction can be very conducive to good learning.
Ideally, some kind of relationship will be built up, too, which can only make the exercise more worthwhile.
As for staff screening, we merely want to ensure that "teachers" aren't so elementary themselves that they would instruct their "students" outright wrongly, or just be next to useless. We have no plans of being snobbish with this - we can't afford to be, on account of the finite resources before us. And of course, if one takes, say, Qccowboy as being representative of the mean teaching standard we are aiming for (which he isn't, as I'll explain in a sec), it excludes pretty much everyone else on the forum. We don't all possess master's degrees, after all.
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Having "staff" decide who is "suitable" or not is really not neccessary and implies more things than should be implied about the staff, teachers and students.
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Care to name them?