Date Posted:Friday, July 08, 03:28:52pm Author:Aine Subject: Which rule book? In reply to:
meagain
's message, "Change I'd like to see" on Friday, July 08, 03:00:18pm
You've got An Com rules, then IDTANA or other teachers organization rules, then regional teachers rules, and Feis commission rules. You'd need at least 4 rule books just to get all the ones that might apply to you, and figuring out which rule takes precedence over another and when would be complicated enough you'd need a lawyer. Its really not so simple as printing a rule book from what some person has on record and sending it out.
However, I do agree that they need to be more available to people. I have a feeling that many "rules" are not only kept hush hush so that people can "interpret" them thier own way, but the written ones we have are worded so as to be so vague anyone can interpret them thier own way. It would be nice to be able to read something and know what it means, and how it is enforced, but that would actually take a huge overhaul of the system, and the resistance would come from people who are able to slide around the rules because they arent enforced or well-known. That includes regional differences in levels and moving up, as well as other things.
Aine