I know exactly what your talking about. The way to stay on top of it is
to get envolved in it and make positive changes. We had a ROY Testing
Overview at our last Sectional Lockin. We went over many of the types of
testing and things that are expected pertaining to the Notebook, Uniform
ect. I too have brought boys to the ROY Testing for many years. We have
taken Area and Section but nothing above that level. The testing is
indeed a filtering process. Some questions are indeed put in there to
filter out some of the competition. If you end up with 5 boys with the
same ammount of points it ends up being a very hard thing. As with most
RR that end up at ROY they are our Very Best. As a Sectional Commander I
remind them each and every one that they are all winners and I wished I
could give them all the top award...but I can't and that leaves us with
less than perfect tests.
I have a lot to learn in this Section and About ROY Testing as with most
other things. But I do know how a local Outpost Commander Feels when he
brings his best to ROY. I will build off of that. Get in there and
boldly go where no Ranger has gone before... hep them fellers out!
Mark Jones
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:51:54 -0800 Duane Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
> *I've headed three years of 4 age groups of sectional Ranger of the
> year
> achievers to NW Dist. Ranger of the Year "compitition" and want to
> blow
> the wistle on a less than perfect system.
>
> The "rule" that allows a boy to compete for the previous year's
> achievement
> allows for a member of a older group like Trail blazer to put on a
> Pioneer
> uniform and compete against real Pioneers who are the right age.
>
> A Commander can "load" the bases by playing the birthdays of his
> Rangers and chooseing in what group the boy would have the best
> chance
> of
> succeeding to rise to the next level.
>
> Next, at the district level, the questions sometimes come from
> materials
> outside
> the of reasonable resource materials, and are slanted not to enhance
> the
> experiance
> of a common Royal Ranger... but to dis-qualify or come up with a
> winner.
>
> At the Dist. level there is to be no protest of the questions as
> well as
> no copies
> of the questions given out! The scoreing sheets and results are
> property
> of
> the dist. testors and distroyed before the awards cerimony to
> discourage
>
> protest of the contest!<G> *Bravo fair play!
>
> *If the "meaning of the emblem" equates a balance of the Red-Gold
> and
> Blue
> points, then the questions should fall into that balance of
> understanding common
> to all Ranger's at each age level, and not slant heavy to a Bible
> expert
> over
> a Sports centered ranger. The title "Ranger of the Year" may not
> allways
>
> apply to the winners in truth, but may be just an act of
> administrative
> justice.
>
>
> *Like the "Electoral College" in the latest presidential election
> shows...
>
> The "Popular vote" can be over come by a close reading of the
> "rules"
> and adhearence to monkey wrenching with the time line, and
> influenceing
> people after the vote.
>
> Throw both out!
> ----------------
> *Thanks-
> -=A=-
>
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