- Nov 10, 2015
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I hate rubrics
I hate the Kentucky HS rubric especially.
There's no rhyme or reason to it, and no one can answer questions about it. We performed skills last year that were either on the rubric in the highest difficulty level or harder than the skills on the rubric in the highest difficulty level. They scored us in the second-highest difficulty level, and no one can explain it. The head judge can't explain it, the assistant commissioner with KHSAA who is over cheerleading cannot explain it, and the other coaches in the state cannot explain it.
This is not sour-grapes from a losing coach. We won our division, and had the highest score in our region. Then we moved on to state competition, and scored 30 points higher with the exact same routine. It's just proof that the rubric fails to accomplish the one thing that it should accomplish: consistency across the state and from competition to competition.
For a state that sends as many or more teams to UCA nationals as any other state in the country, you would think our high school athletic association would make some attempt at getting the state competition right.
I hate the Kentucky HS rubric especially.
There's no rhyme or reason to it, and no one can answer questions about it. We performed skills last year that were either on the rubric in the highest difficulty level or harder than the skills on the rubric in the highest difficulty level. They scored us in the second-highest difficulty level, and no one can explain it. The head judge can't explain it, the assistant commissioner with KHSAA who is over cheerleading cannot explain it, and the other coaches in the state cannot explain it.
This is not sour-grapes from a losing coach. We won our division, and had the highest score in our region. Then we moved on to state competition, and scored 30 points higher with the exact same routine. It's just proof that the rubric fails to accomplish the one thing that it should accomplish: consistency across the state and from competition to competition.
For a state that sends as many or more teams to UCA nationals as any other state in the country, you would think our high school athletic association would make some attempt at getting the state competition right.