EH,, this doesn't bother me in the least. And I do think it's a good start. Others have said that flight crew should spend time sitting with a dispatcher on shift just as the dispatcher has the cockpit observation requirement. it's still surprising how much I assume the flight crews know that they don't know. A lot of this comes simply because we see so many more situations over a given time span than they do (ie 50 flights a day vs 2 or 3).
A relative example: I dispatch based on non-precision approaches almost daily, and assume the flight crews are train and proficient. Turns out, non-precision approaches are after thoughts in training and crew members may only actually fly a NPA once a year or less.
Another issue (which is my airline specific, but maybe yours too), is that in the past the only "dispatcher" that had any sort of face time with the crews in a classroom setting was one of our standards supervisors (who, though may be nice guys, are management employees and lack the working/day-to-day knowledge of the line dispatchers ). And we have a pretty deep management/union divide and the management generally discourages union to union interaction.
SO, it's another classroom day for us. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a "one time, this dispatcher tried to kill me...." or "Captain Richard Cranium refuses to land in rain..." bitch fests.
