Ha, actually you make me think of one of my good memories in the troof. Luna's dad (luna is my best friend and infrequent poster here) was the school overseer for a number of years. Possibly not so great in the dub-dad department (although take away the dub and he'd be a pretty good dad IMO.) But he was a fantastic school overseer. If it was your first time through the speech counsel slip, pretty much everyone got a G. You also got lots of good constructive counsel, but only a little bit from the platform, the rest after the meeting. If it was your second time through, he started handing out the Ws once in a while with an explanation and specific examples from the platform.
He did this across the board and like a real school-teacher so almost no one ever felt singled out. If you were going thru the speech counsel slip for the 3rd or more time, anything was fair game. And he'd have a theme of improvement for several months running that everyone got counselled on, no matter what your personal subject was. For instance: one of his personal targets was adding a preposition to the end of the sentence. I got lots of Ws from him. AND I also vastly improved my ability in public speaking.
In fact the caliber of speaking for the entire congregation went up considerably. He also started privately counselling the #1 and highlights speakers, so they all improved too. Plus, he was a superb speaker himself. No one ever fell asleep during his talks, no matter how big a lunch you ate before the meeting. I remember being astounded when I left home and moved to another hall how ghastly the Theocratic School meeting could be, and how bad the speakers were. The next two congregations were about the same (really sucky) and I realized that my home congregation was an exception in that regard because of that man. How I wish he wasn't a Witness.
Odrade