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Yeah, that's always the trick.  You always have to walk that tihtrope between
being run over by the system and making things worse by objecting.  I have
contacted the local VE team about working with them and the manager's response
was that they'd be glad to have me work with them but I needed to understand
that we have a lot of VEs in the area.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP, R/D - AU
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Mike Freeman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:11:02 -0700
> From: Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
>     <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ve
>
> Tom:
>
> I completely agree with you.  The question is how to fight the battle.
>
> Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:12 AM
> Subject: Re: ve
>
>
> > 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
> >
>

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