[EricH]

Originally Posted by Monochron

Are you saying that I was in danger at Hooters?

Let me slightly rephrase the original statement by asking a counter-question.

Would the school think you were safe or in danger at Hooters? (For this, whether you actually were in danger is totally irrelevant. Also, I'm deliberately avoiding the question of just what might be the cause of the danger--it just matters that the school might consider you to be in danger from something--anything.)


To rephrase the original statement, the school's first mission is to keep kids safe as the school sees safe. (Whether that should be their first mission is a matter for debate in another thread.) This is because the school's zeroth mission is to make sure the school stays open with the current staff as much as possible. (First job of any bureaucracy and all that.) And, should a kid get hurt, the school could potentially be liable--last thing the school wants is for a lawyer to show up with a lawsuit in hand.

Thus, schools have all sorts of policies to protect both kids and their own interests. Whether the policies actually are in the kids' best interests is certainly a debatable item, but this thread isn't the place to discuss that. (Matter of fact, I bet you could find some past discussion here on CD on some policies that--from one point of view--were most definitely NOT in the best interests of the kids' education.) Violation of said policies is generally considered to be a very bad thing by the various school entities involved, and subject to various penalties spelled out by the various policies.



For the students reading this thread: If a mentor has to follow organization policies when or if you say something to them, there is something that you should probably know. As much as it might hurt you to not be able to trust them, I am sure that it probably hurts them at least as much to lose that trust. You'll have to trust me: I've been there, in the "enforcement" side, and it is not a time I like to remember.