Alright, in no particular order:
She took and passed the MSF beginner course. The instructor was obviously lenient. She has over 700 miles riding time. I believe some people have no business riding a motorcycle, and my wife is one of those people, but that doesn't seem to dissuade her seeing as she wanted to own a motorcycle since she was a teenager. She seems almost not bothered every time she drops the bike which I find very odd. At this point I would say her skill level is still quite behind the level where I was right after I finished my MSF beginner course. And I'm not saying that to be funny.
She has hip and knee armor in both her textile pants and kevlar jeans.
To be fair there is somewhat a time discrepancy in those drops. Four of those happened early on after she got her bike, she learned to not use the front brake hard on slow turns or stops (it took a long time for her to learn this), then 3 months of no drops- generally she is pretty good now with start and stopping but the fifth drop happened 2 days ago after she locked her back brake (from a bad last-second decision to stop on the yellow instead of going through it) which freaked her out and there was a camber in the road which gave her bad footing when she came to the stop. At least she experienced the sensation of locking up her tire for the first time, hopefully she doesn't forget it.
I picked up her bike twice, the third time, the one where she hops off cleanly, she immediately picked up her bike by the time I put the kickstand down and dismounted to help her. And then the two other times she was riding on her own (the ones in her POV). The one thing she seemed to learn quickly is how to pick up her bike herself using her hips.
She can nearly flat foot both feet on the ground but I agree, Patton, she doesn't put enough grunt in her leg to stop her from falling but I don't know what I can do about that. That's one of her issues and even if she can flat foot securely, its what happens when the bike tilts on either side that is the problem for her.
I would like to do an advanced msf course with her but where I live they don't seem to have it unless you wrangle up 4 people on your own and then they will schedule a class, but also not sure if it will help her since she's one of those types that need A LOT of repetition to learn something.