Class Graduation Criteria (SP 6)

[vboyce]

A possible area for improvement, rather than a bug per se.

In SP 6.4 "A class member must dance club level or be expected to dance club level soon to graduate."

I feel like this clause often causes us angst at class grad meetings, because we aren't good at predicting people's performance. I don't have any great suggestions though.

Options include specifying that they dance some subset well (dance through week 10 competently), under an assumption that it takes a couple weeks of practice to become proficient at a new call.

Club level is also pretty ill defined; does this mean callerlab plus (as in section 2), what Ted calls the week after graduation, median dancer performance on a Tuesday, hard fast Plus...

I think we in practice mean "the level we dance", where some portion of our club membership does not dance club level.

[dehnert]

This is one of the cases where I'm basically in favor of wishy-washy language that gives the EC a bit of guidance, but mostly leaves them to figure something out. It reflects what I think we ultimately want, probably (in a way that "dance through week 10" probably doesn't -- people who were doing great but missed a couple weeks around week 10 seem likely to have issues there, but be desirable members). shrug I'm willing to be convinced otherwise / overruled, but I'm not really interested in pushing through changes here.

[vboyce]

One option is to leave the SP the way it is, but encourage class coordinators to keep better notes about how people were doing and how that worked out for us, and try to have some data/unofficial guidelines to reduce the wankery/angst at graduation meetings. /also ideally make it so we do a better job of graduating only who we should.