Competitive Speaking
Recommendations to ASCA standing committees
such as State Tournament, Student
Congress and Demo Day
- Please provide our statement of professional ethics in your rules for your event.
- Please include suggested rules for overnight travel, judging philosophy, and
appropriate behavior.
- Our committees should feel empowered to follow their own rules and follow through
with appropriate consequences that the committee has provided in their own
documents. When a clear rule violation has occurred, grievances in either
direction (the committee or coach) should be handled through the standing
committee, with aid from the advisory committee.
- Because we seek to educate and help those learn, enforcing standing committee
rules is supported by ASCA. However, Committees should enforce their own rules
in an appropriate manner that best exemplifies our mission statement and our
statement on Professional Ethics. ASCA does not seek to demean coaches,
colleagues or students, to break spirits, to threaten or impose power over others.
- ASCA's liability and credibility issues lie in the strength of our standing
committees ability to enforce their own rules. ASCA cannot use police tactics. Our
members must uphold all of our rules, including standards set forth in the
mission statement and statement on professional ethics.
