Originally Posted by violetpretty (Post 2029648)

I'll be blunt here. I get the idea that someone is upset that a certain chapter closed and is trying to point the finger at "the system" instead of considering the possibility that the chapter gave up/weren't motivated/didn't understand the importance of recruitment while working within a system that actually does help struggling chapters. It's easier to blame something that seems to be our of her control. You can't look at every QA a chapter gets as a woman who could have been in small struggling chapter chapter. It's delusional to think such a plan would work and unfair to the women who play by the rules. You also can't look at formal recruitment as the only solution to a struggling chapter's low membership numbers.

BTW, I say this coming from a chapter that had to and still has to work hard to achieve quota and total, which we usually do. Last spring we were reminded what can happen if we get caught napping.

RFM allows struggling chapters to max invite to pref. They are set up to succeed. If they don't make quota, it's because the women who preffed there only ranked their other choice(s) and left that chapter off their MRABA. It has nothing to do with Perfect Polly preffing at Popular Pi, Super Sigma and Top Tier Tau, being too low on all three to match during regular quota, and being rewarded by matching as a QA because she played by the rules and maximized her options.

Originally Posted by violetpretty (Post 2029648)

I'll be blunt here. I get the idea that someone is upset that a certain chapter closed and is trying to point the finger at "the system" instead of considering the possibility that the chapter gave up/weren't motivated/didn't understand the importance of recruitment while working within a system that actually does help struggling chapters. It's easier to blame something that seems to be our of her control. You can't look at every QA a chapter gets as a woman who could have been in said small struggling chapter. It's delusional to think such a plan would work and unfair to the women who play by the rules. You also can't look at formal recruitment as the only solution to a struggling chapter's low membership numbers.

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby (Post 2029667)

You don't agree with some of the things I've said in the thread, so you insult the women in the collegiate chapter from which I'm almost a decade removed? Uh, stay classy; I'm out of here.

Originally Posted by violetpretty (Post 2029648)

I get the idea that someone is upset that a certain chapter closed and is trying to point the finger at "the system" instead of considering the possibility that the chapter gave up/weren't motivated/didn't understand the importance of recruitment while working within a system that actually does help struggling chapters.