Key to Part 1

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by bfed
Rut,
I thought this was all through. Last time I looked we had just hit 2 pages of responses. I open up the site today and we have 5 pages. I am sorry about all the grief. I am still on your side about this topic. I have had 20 people e-mail me for the answers. We must all be bad boys and girls for wanting to check our work.
These tests still don't tell if you can ref. I have gone to many clinics with D-1 officials that say the rules knowledge is not as important as officiating the game.
They are making over $1000 per game and we are getting $60. Who should we listen too?

Do not apologize, you did nothing wrong. We just have a village idiot that thinks he know everything and all things in our state. At least JR has a legitimate disagreement with our philosophy. I disagree with JR on this, but he has made a point that could apply. Windy has been trying to threaten me with all kinds of things for about 7 months now. He has had nothing stick or no one listens to him so he thinks I am going to say anything I would not in any other situation.

Our states use these test as one very small factor. It is an open book test and we get our score immediately if you do it online. I have only found one official (who is not Windy) that has ever had objections to groups going over the answers together. And he was not respected as an official and many did not care what he thought. I am sure there are more officials that feel that way, and have reported that feeling to the state. It has never changed and I have never heard of anyone getting upset about the practice. But when officials were rating officials and not giving a cross section of ratings to the IHSA's satisfaction, we got letters and officials had their rating privileges suspended until they wrote a letter to the IHSA to explain themselves. The rating system is a big factor as to who gets playoffs here, and there was an outcry when officials were doing things possibly unethical there. If our state felt it was cheating, they would have changed their process long ago. They changed the way we take the Part 2 Exam and the promotion process because those systems were getting out of hand. So if folks like Windy want to *****, let them. I personally do not care what other states do and neither should anyone care about what my state does. It is not like one or two states are the only people that have this test available. Not sure how they could ever change the way people share the answers.

Peace