Your input is important to TTAO. If you have a grievance or issue you need the TTAO board to be made aware of please use the link below. TTAO has a code of ethics and professional standards included in our Manual of Operations. Please familiarize yourself with our Code of Ethics and Professional Standards before submitting an ethics violation.
Fundamentally TTAO’s grievance process allows for the following:
TTAO Board will take up
Any ethics violation of adjudicator or contest manager as outlined by our Code of Ethics and Professional Standards
Any issue or ideas from our membership concerning the training of members
Any issue or idea from our membership to better any part of OAP process.
TTAO Board will not take up
Anonymous submissions
Issues arising from the results of a contest
non-ethics related issues regarding adjudicators or contest managers
Important Links:
TTAO Code of Ethics and Professional Standards
If adjudicator not paid after 30 days or not paid fully contact the contest manager.
If after 7 days the contest manager does not resolve the issue or doesn’t respond the adjudicator should contact the District Executive Committee Chair or administrator responsible for payment. (Day 37)
If after 7 days the District Executive Committee Chair or administrator responsible for payment does not resolve the issue or doesn’t respond then the adjudicator may file a grievance with TTAO. (Day 44)
If the grievance is found to have merit by the TTAO Chair then TTAO will send a letter to the District Executive Committee Chair or administrator responsible for payment (Day 51) asking for prompt payment.
If the District Executive Committee Chair or administrator responsible for payment does not resolve the issue or doesn’t respond then TTAO will send a letter to all superintendents of the district and ask for prompt payment. A warning will be given that all schools in the district will be flagged for payment issues within TTAO in the following year if payment is not rendered in full. Any future invitation from any school in the district will be accompanied by a note to the prospective adjudicators that their district failed to pay fully or on-time the previous year.