[Sca-cooks] Re: pennsic class

[Elaine Koogler]

Yeah, we had a discussion of this a few weeks back.  I suspect that this 
is going to cause enough problems that they are going to have to rework 
it a bit.  The part about classes in private camps is most 
worrysome...but instructors may have to struggle through it this year.  
It's a pity they didn't poll the instructors who usually teach at 
Pennsic to find out how this would be received. 

Kiri

JAMES REVELLS wrote:

>Hej!
>    I got a message the other day about teaching at Pennsic that bothered me
>here it is below, with my opinion of this change below it:
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>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:51 AM
>Subject: [Medievalacademy] [SCA-Bridge-Chat] FYI...Class signup change for
>Pennsic (fwd)
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>>A Big Change for Pennsic Classes.  Please take note!
>>
>>Dianaim
>>----------------------  Forwarded Message:  ---------------------
>>From:    "Elisabeth Borden" <LdyElisabeth at cox.net>
>>To:      <sca-Bridge-Chat at yahoogroups.com>
>>Subject: [SCA-Bridge-Chat] FYI...Class signup change for Pennsic
>>Date:    Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:19:39 -0500
>>
>>From the Pennsicwar.org website:
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>>" There will be no signup for classes. Classes will be entirely done on a
>>first-come, first-served basis.
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>>After 8 years of doing prior signup for classes, a new idea is being
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>tested.
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>>This will be easier for the students, who no longer have to get up at
>>0-dark-thirty to stand in line in the rain or the heat, or miss classes
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>due
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>>to the afternoon sign-up.
>>This will also make life easier for the teachers. They will no longer have
>>to pick up class lists at A&S Point prior to their class. They will no
>>longer be obligated to lead students to private camps. However, they will
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>be
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>>obligated to write out DETAILED DIRECTIONS to the camp where the class is
>>being held once they arrive on site. This can be done when the teachers
>>check-in at A&S Point.
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>>The teachers will be allowed to limit the number of handouts or kits
>>available. However, they will be obligated to take any extra students
>>waiting for their class as auditors, unless this is a safety issue. If
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>this
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>>is the case, please make a note on the application to teach mentioning the
>>maximum number of auditors you are willing to take.
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>>The procedure for this will be simple. Just line up outside the A&S tent
>>that the class will be held in prior to the class. If the class is being
>>held in a private camp, the students must get directions at A&S Point.
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>>Please remember that this is an experiment. It is the first time that this
>>has been tried. There will probably be some frustrations for a few
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>students
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>>or teachers, but we believe that this will be a welcome idea for the great
>>majority. "
>>
>>Elisabeth
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>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Lady Elisabeth Borden
>>Barony of the Bridge, EK
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>>Greetings, M'Lady,
>>    As far as the classes taught in the A&S tents this sounds like a good
>>idea, however from my standpoint as a person who runs a small hands on
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>class
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>>in a private camp this idea sounds like a bad one.  Because the class I do
>>involves liquid metals, I limit the number of people in the class to the
>>maximum that will safely fit in the camp.  If I had been forced to accept
>>all the people who wanted to audit the class on Viking Clay Mold Casting
>>last year there would have been an additional 20 people in the camp-which
>>would have upset the camp members & been unsafe as well, or I would have
>>spent a large part of the morning telling people that the class was full &
>>no more auditors are allowed.  It is possible that if you had the teachers
>>who are teaching in a private camp meet the students at A&S point & go
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>from
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>>there to the private camp your plan might work, but as you have it planed
>>now it would be a nightmare for me.  If there is not a modification to the
>>current plan I will likely not teach this year, since I would like to camp
>>with Stonemarche again next Pennsic.
>>Thank you for your attention,
>>Olaf of Trollhiemsfjord
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