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Re: Volunteer Screening?
It won't do any good, but I will feel better if I sound off one more time about these ridiculous background checks.
Many of these students will be out of school in a few months. Who is going to protect them after they graduate? Most all of them are 14 years old or older, not exactly young children that would be easy prey.
But a larger issue, what is the criteria and who makes the call as to what is the acceptable background? Is the only concern a sex offender? If that is the area of concern, then call it a sex offender background check. Or, if other areas of background will eliminate you from being on a FIRST team, what are they? Would a murderer be allowed? How about someone convicted of manslaughter? A DUI? Maybe five DUI's? Domestic violence? A drug conviction? A drug user? Someone who smoked or inhaled something? Where do you draw the background line and who decides if a person is in or out? Do we have to go through screening every year? These are real questions concerning an individuals past and maybe affecting their future.
If we keep expanding these types of measures, we are going to create a generation of paranoid, unself-reliant folks unable to make decisions for themselves and demanding that "someone" protect them from all things.
There, I feel much better.
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