I had a student come out today. I had buddy boxed him several times before and he did well. The winds were gusting to 28 mph today. I told him that today was his day to solo. He was very afraid and wanted to wait until a calmer day came along but I told him that he would have to learn to fly in the wind some day and there was no need to put it off. He managed to take off fine but really botched the approach and dumped it into the safety fence as it was a crosswind. It tore the plane all to s?>#. He was upset and so was I. A couple of guys sitting in the pitts argued with me that I should have waited for a more calm day. I told them that I wasn't trying to mold a pitt rat and that the student would thank me later on for the lesson he learned that day which was rudder control. You just can't reason with some people.