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

["E. Roy Epperson" <kirklee@triad.rr.com>]

The Exhibition Certificate is not a garden award.  Yes, AIS judges vote the
EC, but this is a bench judgment, not a garden evaluation.

Roy


----- Original Message -----
From: "William Plotner" <gardens@molalla.net>
To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] JT Handbook Item#2, Plus


>    "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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