They call it a school. This is where you do not graduate. But is the so-called Theocratic Ministry School really a school?
Technically, it is a course. The structure is set up to teach people to bring other people into the same program. You learn how to use the Bible to make people believe the Watchtower doctrine, and there are several parts. As I was fading substantially when they were transitioning to the new book and I do not find it worth going back just to see the new structure, I will describe what it was like when I was active.
There was the Number One talk. Usually this was given by a hounder or assistant hounder. It used to last about 15 minutes, and was from the old All Scripture book. There used to be a short question and answer part after this. I vaguely remember they shortened this and cut the Q & A part. This has minimal audience participation, and you learn nothing.
The "Bible" highlights followed. This discussed the verses that were assigned, fitting them into the Watchtower doctrine. In my day, it lasted 6 minutes and was given by a hounder or assistant hounder. No audience participation was given, and you learned nothing from it.
From here, the audience is involved. People are assigned the next three talks in rotating fashion. The #2 talks, as they used to be, was always a Bible reading. Once they had a break in the middle for commentary, but they stopped that. Eventually they just read the passage. I have heard that some weeks, they read a passage from the Puketower magazine in lieu of the Bible. Men (and sometimes boys) are assigned this. The audience learns nothing. The one given these talks works on a point called a counsel point, which is some facet of delivering talks. This resembles a speech course more than a Bible school.
The next talk is always a sister. They pick a subject, and often the sister picks a setting from a list that the Society presented. It is a discussion based talk with a householder, and the Reasoning(TM) book is often used. Again, those members of the audience that are not involved in the talk learn nothing.
The final talk is either another discussion by sisters, or a talk out of the Reasoning(TM) book by a brother(TM). As with the other talks, audience members not giving a talk or serving as householders do not learn anything.
These last 3 talks are tedious. The audience is split into groups, as there are often two "schools(??)". They have the second "school(??)" in the back room (they used to have those downstairs). The setting is either in the main auditorium, or in that back room. They pick the audience for the second "school(??)" by book study. If you are in the designated book study, you go that week. Otherwise, you stay. How boring can that get? For sure, this is crap compared to the classes that I remember school as.
Nor does anyone learn anything. The people with talks have to work on a point within the course of giving better talks. Those in the audience are supposed to learn things for the written (nowadays, oral) reviews that are held periodically. I could give the stock answers usually, but I didn't believe any of them to be actually correct. As one could have the Bible open during this, I used to take the answers directly from the Bible and not the publication that it was supposed to be taken out of.
This is no school. It is a course. It reminds me of a "business" opportunity that I investigated and quickly dismissed. You were selling $1500 courses and $7500 seminars that taught people to sell copies of the same course, and you got a commission out of it. As soon as I saw that and could see no useful product that was being sold, I immediately discontinued looking into it. The Watchtower Society is giving the same type of course and calling it a "school". I call it a scam.