[GFCA] Novice classification request

[Smiley, Adam]

While I empathize with this issue and want all students to have an
opportunity to compete, I do think that there needs to be a clear bright
line about when this is possible.  Allowing students into the novice
division that do not meet the traditional definition of a novice does
open up a number of situations that could be more difficult to define
both in terms of 2nd year debaters in novice and 3rd year debaters in
JV.  If the GFCA does allow this, then they should consider giving some
very clear and difficult to meet circumstances in which it is allowed to
limit potential issues with such a policy.

 

I think that there are a couple of other options that deserve
consideration until one of the current novices on the squad is advanced
enough to go JV.  One would be to go maverick in the JV division to some
tournaments.  The other option would be to see if a student from another
school could be part of a hybrid team at a tournament (where tournaments
allow for hybrids).  Both of these options would allow the student an
opportunity to compete and continue to learn about debate without
needing to move down to novice.

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[mailto:thegfca-bounces at lists.gradyspeaks.org] On Behalf Of McClellan,
John G.
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 10:10 AM
To: Ulrich, Ashley; Maggie Berthiaume; Eric Crisp
Cc: thegfca at lists.gradyspeaks.org
Subject: Re: [GFCA] Novice classification request

 

Sounds just to me.

 

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[mailto:thegfca-bounces at lists.gradyspeaks.org] On Behalf Of Ulrich,
Ashley
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 9:47 AM
To: Maggie Berthiaume; Eric Crisp
Cc: thegfca at lists.gradyspeaks.org
Subject: Re: [GFCA] Novice classification request

 

I'm with Maggie on this.-sounds fine to me if the GFCA is good with it.
I thought we have a formal request process for extenuating circumstances
like this. 

 

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[mailto:thegfca-bounces at lists.gradyspeaks.org] On Behalf Of Maggie
Berthiaume
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 9:29 AM
To: Eric Crisp
Cc: thegfca at lists.gradyspeaks.org
Subject: Re: [GFCA] Novice classification request

 

This seems very reasonable to me.  Does the GFCA have a process for such
an instance?

 

Thanks,

Maggie

 

 

 

Maggie Berthiaume

Woodward Debate

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Eric Crisp
<ericcrisp at walkerschools.org> wrote:

I have a scheduling difficulty. I have a single returning debater (Danny
Bunn) from last year who competed at two tournaments last year. The
entirety of my team otherwise are true novice without even any middle
school experience. Last year was the first year of debate for Ridgeland
since the late 80's or early 90's. 

I realize that coaches might at times just go ahead and enter Danny in
Novice, but I wanted to ask for a waiver from the group first. I think
it would be appropriate for him to compete at this point in the year in
Novice CX, though he has debated twice under a previous resolution. He
has not been to any policy competitions this year because I've not had
anyone I could pair with him. 

For the record, Danny is a sophomore and he went 1-3 at Calhoun and (I
think) 1-3 at Alpharetta last year. 

Eric Crisp 






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