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Originally posted by Steve W
Yes to most of your questions. As a Parent I want to know who my children are with. As a Mentor I want the parents to know who their child is with. Before FIRST brought this into effect I volunteered to get the police check done and I paid for it. As an outsider to the school, shouldn't I be willing to help make others comfortable. FIRST is a great program and well worth the time invested. I feel it should continue with as safe as enviorment as possible.
I know that there is never any for sures BUT do we want to take chances with our young people. Once you are no longer a student you become a mentor. It has nothing to do with being an adult. Many who know me say that I have never grown up and I have been out of school for over 30 years. Question might be "who is an adult?"
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Exactly, who is an adult? I hate to say this but...everyone (students and adults) over the age of 14 should have a background check just to be sure. I doubt highly that anyone will show up anything on their record but wouldn't it make it safer for the rest of us? Don't you want to be sure you know the kid next to you isn't going to try and rape you? There are only three girls on my team (and some teams are all one sex) but that doesn't mean anything. That only means that there are less of a chance...but there is that chance. Too many bad things have happened to good people. FiRST was created to be a place to have students go to learn about Science and Technology in a safe and fun manner. They require us to wear safety glasses and not to do things that would be unsafe so I find this newest requirement great. I want to be safe and I want my fellow teammates to be safe. I'm not an adult and I'm not a mother but that doesn't mean I don't worry about others like a parent would. I do worry. I worry about my friends.
This is a great idea and I appluad it. I just feel that it should be done to everyone. If you are a freshman in high school, you should have a background check and if you have a team that is organized in manner that it is not associated with one school (such as MOE) then I think that there should at the very least be a look given to the school records. Has the student been suspended? Expelled? Why? How many detetenions have they received that year? For what? I mean, come on. Do you really want a student on the team who has been suspended three times in the past year for fighting with other students? I do not mean to say that this should just be the main factor of whither they are in or not but rather that it should be a peice of thought that is there. Think about this guys. You are trusting complete strangers with your life every single time you walk in that door. Every time you sit down and start a meeting, you are trust the people around you to be honest outstanding members of the community. This newest requirement is only there the ensure that your trust isn't blindly and falsely put into those people.