Team Trials

[Del Rykert]

Sad but true..  Accountability must become the watch word in school for teachers and students. I know I have been chastised by some for making my children very accountable. They now thank me for it. Course when our young minds see how our politicians aren't held accountable let alone the Hollywood elite no wonder they feel like they don't have to apply themselves and be held accountable. Part of reason I enjoy competition so much. Makes me very accountable to myself for the scores I receive and how prepared or un-prepared I was.
 
     Del K. Rykert
     AMA - 8928 
     NSRCA - 473
     Kb2joi - General 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Van Putte 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:30 AM
  Subject: Re: Team Trials




  Dean Pappas wrote

  >Tony, when you said that, "AMA didn't even think it important enough to cover in Model Aviation...", something inside me twinged. So I called dear friend Bob Hunt(the editor at MA) and asked him if there was to be even cursory coverage. Realize that the man I'm talking to is a World Champion in Control-Line Aerobatics, and still a competitor ... His voice saddened and he told me that the policy at MA is that no team trials are covered, lest they all have to be covered. Every time something about competition is covered, droves of readers write in to complain. After every December issue (the NATs coverage issue) they are barraged with complaints about the the waste of magazine space. World championships might get coverage, if they happen in the U.S.! The mediocre have censored coverage of excellence. Don't hassle Bob, he is one of us!
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  Ah yes, we can't have anyone's self esteem damaged by having them 
  realize that someone is better than they are.  Many schools have stopped 
  giving grades and the top students are no longer recognized, because of 
  the same issue.  Johnny can't read, but many employers can't tell him 
  that and, if they won't hire him, are accused of bias.  It's a sad 
  commentary on our times.

  Ron Van Putte


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