Check for evening "extended education" classes at the local CoCo. Also check if you have any local camera stores who may sponsor classes. Groups with teacher-led courses are definitely the way to go, if possible. Then again, nowadays, those may all be remote learning anyways.
Also, make sure he knows WHAT he wants to learn. IOW, just to be generally good with basic concepts or really good at specific sets of actions. That will help him explain himself to most trainers so they can help him.
I'm not saying don't go to photo forums to ask questions but - don't go to photo forums to ask questions. Photographer groups do have a tendency to treat newcomers or those w/o knowledge very poorly (like everywhere else on the internet). There may be a couple of boards where you can find accepting souls but they are the exception rather than the rule so warn him to be careful where/what he asks.