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garyw wrote:

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gutterdog wrote:

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I shouldve kept my mouth shut. I've been reduced to specialist, now I gotta throw away and change a bunch of stuff :(

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 NO you don't. If you have advertising that calls you a instructor, use it. Nobody is going to know except you and nobody is going to beat you up over it. You just won't be listed that way on the forum.

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 Why not?

Roof Cleaning By A&E wrote:

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I don't want this taken the wrong way but, I think there should be more of a training process before becoming a certified member. Just paying a fee and having 100 posts shouldn't warrant the title certified. I am sure there have been guys in the past that have become certified without ever even cleaning a roof. I value the title and feel it should be like earning a degree. You can certainly cause a lot of damage by using the wrong process for cleaning a roof and a guy who doesn't know what he's doing because he's never actually done it, only read about the process, can devalue the certified title. I think there should me a mandatory, on site training, on a roof training before you get the title of being certified. Before promoting itI ever cleaned a roof, I called another roof cleaning contractor and paid him to spend a day on site to see the process in action. I pretty much knew everything I was seeing but, there were some valuable things I learned on The job site that you couldn't learn from reading alone. I have been on other forums and they laugh at the RCIA certification because they feel it has no value because anyone Who pays the fee and has 100 posts is certified. I like the fact of being RCIA certified and feel I have earned it and just think to make the title more valuable, it should be harder to achieve. JMHO

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 Your comment has some merit, but also some fallicies  The people that are critizing our certification, are the same people that helped design it, and then stole it and sold it to DeLux, and then NCE (Ron) and are now  promoting it on other forums. Theirs is a one day class, no posting requirements, no webinars, no online tests, no field training, etc., and then they got the balls to critize us and say our certification is a joke. Says a whole lot about their character.  

What and where is wcr?

Roof Cleaning By A&E wrote:

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I didn't post my post to be mean to anyone I just think it needs some more thought in the process!!!

 

Back when the certification committee was working on the new program, there was very little input by members and anything that was brought  up by committee members was put on hold due to the timing not being right for the other plans some had. When a certain member found out he was not going to teach webinars at $40.00 a person, he got mad and thats when Chris stepped in and said what we got now is what we were going to use. Then it got stolen and sold to other forums.

Anybody want to try again to make it better?