In Episodes 5 and 6 RWBYQOM nearly die to a grimm species that are physically weak but sap your will to live in groups. They nearly die because they can't see the signs of an Apathy infestation, even though Maria recognizes them instantly when she sees the name in the journal.

This takes me to my post title - Beacon is objectively a terrible school. Before you ever let a diesel mechanic work on an engine, they go through a class on how that engine could kill them horrifically. Before you set foot on a flight line, you're taught to secure your belongings and stay the fuck away from engines, active taxiways, fuel trucks, and ordnance. Every profession that risks death or grievous injury has a class about "ways you'll end up having a closed casket funeral."

With today's episode, it's obvious that Beacon doesn't have an Identifying Grimm 101 class. A school training huntsman and huntresses should be teaching all of their students about dangerous grimm, especially the ones that are more metaphysically dangerous, long before they're sent out on even a supervised mission.

Sure, they were bickering, and sure they were dealing with the revelations from Jinn, but they were all suspicious that something was wrong with the house. Someone should have gone "hey guys, what kind of grimm causes people to go to sleep and never wake up?" Hell, even Qrow noticed that everyone had given up before he started drinking alcohol like water. That he couldn't draw the connection to the Apathy is a sign that he was never taught about them and never encountered them.

I'd call Ozpin criminally negligent, but that seems a bit redundant at this point.