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Originally Posted by Captain_fantastic  Whats your opinion on that, they dont actually disclose to the students what belt they are and the students are forbidden to ask! |
I have absolutely no problem with having a colored belt teach a class provided that it is supervised and being done in order to teach the colored belt something.
HOWEVER...
Like in most things, I am not a fan of deception. If I put a red belt up to teach my yellow belt class, I will tell my yellows that he/she is a red belt instead of trying to disguise that fact. Likewise, I expect them to show all the same respect as if I had put a black belt in charge.
In my mind it kind of works like this: Master Chang (9th Dan) delegates the responsibility of the beginner class to me and so, when I am teaching that class, I deserve the same respect they would afford him. However, when I am a student in his class students in his class should treat me with the respect befitting a fellow student. In turn, when I put someone in charge of my class, my students should treat them with the same respect they would show me (which is the same respect they would show a 9th Dan),
even if the person I put in charge is a lower rank.
Here is a for instance: Suppose I somehow manage to convince our overseeing non-profit to allow for an outside person to run a seminar (very unlikely) and I put Triangle in charge of my classes. Even though Triangle is unranked in TKD, I would expect my students to treat him as if he was a 9th Dan in TKD. (I wouldn't expect anything different because I imagine him to have an intimidating presence on 6 year olds.
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