I confirm what
@MsWax says above, with one exception.
Teaching never-evers requires that the beginners walk uphill, turn around without taking off for Vermont, then skiing down a very short distance and stopping. This early learning experience works best if the turn-around point at the top of the walk is flat. Cannon has no such thing; they have to learn to turn around on a pitch, which involves teaching them a bullfighter turn; this takes time out of the short lesson (1.5 hours) and some don't learn it and take off down the hill, out of control. Those who don't take off are filled with panic. Those first straight runs also work best if the stopping area at the bottom offers the beginners a bit of unobstructed flat space to coast to a stop. Nope, Cannon does not have that; beginners have to stop with a braking wedge before hitting the fence with all the skis on it, and there is cross traffic (a lot of it on weekends) going in both directions where they need to stop. Did I mention that there is traffic where the beginners need to do this first stuff? They cannot be taken to the Tuckerbrook area until they can stop, turn left, and turn right. There is NO protected, beginner-friendly terrain for this essential step. Never-evers have to deal not only with technical challenges, but real danger and fear that's justified.
For this reason I left to teach at Bretton Woods. There the beginner terrain for that first straight run and their first turns is flat at the top, has a flat area at the bottom long enough for beginners to coast to a stop if they fail to hold a wedge, and it's completely protected from cross-traffic. The factors contributing to fear (adult first-timers, that is) are limited at Bretton Woods, and multiplied beyond reason at Cannon. Fear is why aults have difficulty learning to ski. 85% of first day skiers across the USA don't ever return. I don't know the statistics at Cannon, but I bet they are higher.
But MsWax is right; once beginners learn to turn left, right, and stop by turning to the side, the next level of terrain in the Tuckerbrook area is somewhat better than what Bretton Woods offers. There is really only one run at Bretton Woods for that first venture onto the mountain. It's long, but is a narrow "road" that involves multiple trail crossings that involve waiting for traffic to clear.
Cannon's Tuckerbrook area, on the other hand, has a long circular route they can repeat all day long that starts with one trail from Tuckerbrook's top. If they venture down any of the other trails from that top area, they encounter a "headwall" that scares the bejeebers out of them. Best to try those headwalls first time with an instructor. Once they can do those, they are ready, sorta, for the Eaglecliff lift, if it's open. Which it often isn't.
As an isntructor who has to teach beginners, I'll take Bretton Woods' limitations for beginners over Cannon's.
Everything else I totally agree with. It's good to know others here on this forum frequent the places I ski so often. Maybe, MsWax, we can take a few turns together this upcoming season.