Tom:

I completely agree with you.  The question is how to fight the battle.

Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >


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> Thanks, Tom, for your input on all of this.  Because I've taught
graduate level
> courses at the university level I have some what I might call amused
reactions
> to test grading as I've been doing that for years.  It is rather
explicit in the
> FCC rules as well as the ARRL/VEC's manual that each person is not
actually
> required to grade exams but is required to sign off on them.  This is
> particularly true of those exams graded with templates.
>
> Just as a general informational point, Handi-Hams has braille tests
available to
> VEs I gather upon request.
>
>
> While dealing with print documentation is potentially problematic,
there are
> numberous ways of doing so from the use of readers to the use of
scanners to the
> use of print detection devices such as the PSB system.  Having been an
> audiologist and speech-language pathologist for some twenty years has
caused me
> to have to deal with a large amount of paperwork ranging from the
testing of
> clients to writing client reports to filling out insurahce forms to a
seemingly
> endless stream of federal paperwork for any of a number of reasons.  I
suppose I
> just have a bit of a problem with someone telling me that I can't do
these
> things when I've been doing them professionally for a long time.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP, R/D - AU
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>