That's very true. Garrett does the school and I know how it goes when he tries to find a subsitute. But he used to ask me every single time, and I'm like G, I can't subsitute EVERY WEEK. Then he found other sisters that do it too. So actually, it has gotten alot better. But the excuses that he gets, wow. One time a sister told him she couldn't find anything in the material so she didn't do it. No advance warning. Just showed up at the meeting and was like yeah i'm not giving it.
Ok, i've never had it that bad! LOL
I't can get very stressful, it is such a relief to hear the words 'yeah, I'll do it', and you actually know they will! It is even worse when they cancel night before, or even day of.
I have a question for you...Garrett always talks about how he will never tell someone from the platform to "work on" something. He said he doesn't have the heart to do it. Afterwards when he counsels the person he will give them advice and tell them to try to work on something, but on the platform he said the person would do the worst job ever, and he would never tell them they need to work on that. Are you like that too?
I have never been school overseer... just the school scheduler.
IIRC when we started with the BE book, the instructions changed to, commend, commend, commend. If anything would need 'counsel' it would be done privately after the meeting.
I have know of a few people that ANY council would be a crushing blow,(flaxen wick, reed etc.) so small suggestions etc. is all they are ready for.
Everyone is different. So, knowing the student is probably more important than getting everyone to the same level. Think about it a school with no finish. Plenty of time for some to make minute advances.
Don't know if that helps.