Elm11
2009-09-22, 04:07 AM
I'm sure just about everyone has had them through school, or uni or whatever. That person who, no matter what you actually wrote down, would just see "give me low marks" written on the paper. Who are the people in your life that have frustrated your efforts constantly, right up to crushing your hopes and dreams in that final Uni exam for the subject you've always loved.
I just got home from the Australian national singing Eistedford, and am somewhat less than pleased with the performance of the adjudicator there. I sat through the 10 years of age and under session, as it happened to be before mine, and watched her hand out destructive critisms to 10 year olds like you'd give to proffesional signers that you didn't like. At one point she kept critisizing some poor girl till she was crying her eyes out, and her mother actaully had to tell her to stop, before leaving in a rutt.
Anyways, come my section, i actaully put on a mighty fine performance, and was fairly pleased with myself. I was somewhat surprised with the section make up, because i was the only male, and males and females got awards seperatley. This didn't matter, because medals were awarded due to score points (meaning that i wouldn't neccasarily get first, meaning it was still fair). Come adjudication, i was expecting her to tear everything to bits, but i was confident i would still get a good mark, as i'd sung my song almost to perfection. She goes through her "UR DOIN IT RONG" routine for the girls section, but hands out the awards.
What should have happened next, was her awarding me my appropriate medal or (though highly unlikely) nothing at all. Along with this, i should at least have gotten a mention, because she is required to talk about both the males and females section.
What DID happen however, was she declared and end to the section, forgetting about me completely. After about 10 seconds confused commotion, she had to be reminded that there was a male section too. She went back up no stage, and without and apology, went through every minute detail of absolutely everything i did wrong in the song. This frustrated me, because she had made most of the stuff i did Up! then, to finish the display, she said that she marked me down because i couldn't get my note values right, then listed the examples (only two of them) where i had gotten them "wrong" and what it should have been. This nearly sent me round the bend completely, because i had MARKED THAT I HAD CHANGED THE NOTE VALUES ON THE ADJUDICATORS MUSIC SHEET. as such, she had refused to ackowladge the clearly marked changes in note values, and proceeded to mark me down for them.
and that's not all!
At the end of the section, i came to see her, and politely asked her about the marks lost on note values. she told me that she had seen the markings, but didn't like the way i had changed it, so decided she should mark it like the original, that i was being rude "Arguing" with the judge, and was breaking eistedford rules by changing not values. I had her there, becausxe i made sure to check that altering a song like that was perfectly acceptable for the eistedford before i did. it was fine, and to make sure there were no misunderstandings, i brought in a printout of the rules sheet. Upon seeing this, she said it was forged, and that i was a lying bastard for trying to trick her, and to get out of her sight before she revoked my medal. her final comment was also "i only gave you that first because SOMEONE had to get it" which wasn't even true, she could have just as easily given me nothing at all.
I'm writing this after lodging a formal complaint to the eistedford board, and now have to go due to a thunderstorm
I just got home from the Australian national singing Eistedford, and am somewhat less than pleased with the performance of the adjudicator there. I sat through the 10 years of age and under session, as it happened to be before mine, and watched her hand out destructive critisms to 10 year olds like you'd give to proffesional signers that you didn't like. At one point she kept critisizing some poor girl till she was crying her eyes out, and her mother actaully had to tell her to stop, before leaving in a rutt.
Anyways, come my section, i actaully put on a mighty fine performance, and was fairly pleased with myself. I was somewhat surprised with the section make up, because i was the only male, and males and females got awards seperatley. This didn't matter, because medals were awarded due to score points (meaning that i wouldn't neccasarily get first, meaning it was still fair). Come adjudication, i was expecting her to tear everything to bits, but i was confident i would still get a good mark, as i'd sung my song almost to perfection. She goes through her "UR DOIN IT RONG" routine for the girls section, but hands out the awards.
What should have happened next, was her awarding me my appropriate medal or (though highly unlikely) nothing at all. Along with this, i should at least have gotten a mention, because she is required to talk about both the males and females section.
What DID happen however, was she declared and end to the section, forgetting about me completely. After about 10 seconds confused commotion, she had to be reminded that there was a male section too. She went back up no stage, and without and apology, went through every minute detail of absolutely everything i did wrong in the song. This frustrated me, because she had made most of the stuff i did Up! then, to finish the display, she said that she marked me down because i couldn't get my note values right, then listed the examples (only two of them) where i had gotten them "wrong" and what it should have been. This nearly sent me round the bend completely, because i had MARKED THAT I HAD CHANGED THE NOTE VALUES ON THE ADJUDICATORS MUSIC SHEET. as such, she had refused to ackowladge the clearly marked changes in note values, and proceeded to mark me down for them.
and that's not all!
At the end of the section, i came to see her, and politely asked her about the marks lost on note values. she told me that she had seen the markings, but didn't like the way i had changed it, so decided she should mark it like the original, that i was being rude "Arguing" with the judge, and was breaking eistedford rules by changing not values. I had her there, becausxe i made sure to check that altering a song like that was perfectly acceptable for the eistedford before i did. it was fine, and to make sure there were no misunderstandings, i brought in a printout of the rules sheet. Upon seeing this, she said it was forged, and that i was a lying bastard for trying to trick her, and to get out of her sight before she revoked my medal. her final comment was also "i only gave you that first because SOMEONE had to get it" which wasn't even true, she could have just as easily given me nothing at all.
I'm writing this after lodging a formal complaint to the eistedford board, and now have to go due to a thunderstorm