Re: [AISdiscuss] JT Handbook Item#2, Plus

["William Plotner" <gardens@molalla.net>]

   "Keep in mind that all awards voted by AIS judges are garden awards."
First this statement is not entirely true as EC awards for seedlings at
shows are also voted upon by judges.

My understanding of the two hour in garden training is that it is an outdoor
in garden classroom with a written test at the end and that this is to help
Judges maintain their working knowledge of judging Irisin the garden.   To
allow someone to skip this with a one on one training session seems to make
the process unreliable.

I believe giving in garden taining to an aprentence or student judge is and
should be a privelage and never used to avoid our own training.  We should
maintain standards that are equal for all voting judges.

There is my 2" worth.

All My Best

Will



 Item 2.   Required training in the garden.  Keep in mind that all awards
 voted by AIS judges are garden awards.   Current requirements are that each
 apprentice judge must certify that he/she has received two, two-hour,
 one-on-one
 tutoring sessions with an accredited tutor (currently that would be Garden,
 Active Master, Emeritus). Current requirements state "When an Active Master
 Judge tutors an apprentice judge, the apprentice receives training credit,
the
active master judge does not."  Is this logical in light of the more recent
 requirement that each garden judge must earn and certify two (2) hours of
 in-garden training during each 3-year period and that each Active Master
judge
 must
 earn and certify one (1) hour of in-garden training each 3-year period?
This
 prohibition of the Active Master tutor receiving credit may be logical for
 Exhibition tutoring, but is it logical for one-on-one garden training?
      This should give everyone something to think about when you're going
to
 sleep at night -- I know none of us has any time during the frantic days of
 April.

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