Absence of Logic

I am not a patient person under normal circumstances - I have patience when it's required (like at work), but it's not my natural tendency. I have even less patience when I deal with people who appear to have abandoned logic. A little background info - I am applying for my SLP license in California so that I can either work for a private clinic or start my own business. The website for the SLP and Audiology Board has been helpful in outlining the requirements for this: a completed application, a LiveScan/Fingerprints so that my criminal history can be determined, a passport photograph, a "Verification of Required Professional Experience", Verification of Certification letter from ASHA (the American Speech Language and Hearing Association), my Praxis scores sent, $60 dollars, and my left kidney (just joking!). A few of the things make sense - like the application and the fee. However, I have my Certificate of Clinical Competence from ASHA, which requires me to have passed the Praxis exam, and complete CFY with a certain amount of supervisions by my lead SLP (and various other items which I won't bore you with). Now, a smart person would deduce that, if an SLP has her C's and has been practicing for 7 years, that my professional experience, my criminal history, and my CFY documentation of certification have already been established. However, after a whole morning on the phone with both the California SLP Board and ASHA proves otherwise. I am informed by the "powers that be" in Sacramento that they have "much higher standards" than ASHA and that, if I don't have the required 8 hours per month of CFY supervision documented, that I will have to make that up. She also says that it's never been brought up as an issue before. That means a couple of things might be happening - that all the SLP's who apply for their state licensure have had the required amount of supervision from their CFY experience (even those who completed this 20+ years ago when standards might have been different) OR that CFY supervisors are simply signing off on these "verification" forms in order to jump through the proverbial hoops. When I question both organizations, I am spoken to rudely - ASHA says that they won't advocate for California based SLP's who are trying to get their licensure, and the California SLP board will not budge on their "higher standards". Now, normally I'm not a proponent of "lower standards", but I have to wonder in this instance, how 6 more hours (which is what I might be short because of following the National SLP standards) of supervision is going to help to make sure that I truly am qualified to hold a California license. In my seven years, I've never received a sub-par evaluation - in fact they have been at or above average in all areas. I've never committed any crimes, which can be verified through the gazillion FBI and fingerprinting that I've paid for several times over the past several years. I even passed the exams in order to be deemed worthy by the National Board to provide speech therapy. So I am left to wonder - just exactly where is the logic in determining the "higher standards" that California has in the SLP licensure requirements. Grrr!!!!