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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
you cant be serious?
if someone is convicted of raping a child, spends 2 or 3 years in prison, and then is let out on parole
you would want that person to be a mentor on your team? to travel with the students?
you think that would be ok?
Seriously?!
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I think that a person is entitled to a right to privacy and that it is our responsibility as teachers, mentors, engineers and parents to ensure that situations that may endanger children do not occur.
Does anyone
want a rapist to be a mentor on their team? Of course not; because it's unlikely that anyone wants for rapists to exist at all.
What's bothersome, really, is that the information available to team leaders does not distinguish
at all between a rape conviction and a handful of parking tickets. You might be saving your kids from a dangerous rapist, but chances are, you're really denying them a great mentor and teacher who tends to not feed the parking meter. By no means am I suggesting sexual predation is an acceptable action or risk, however; I just mean to point out that 99% of those who'll be negatively affected by this criteria will not represent a threat to a team or its members.
What's more, this FAQ has done nothing to clarify what other criteria is employed when red-flagging a mentor. We've been given a list of what convictions (already a matter of public record, by the way) are a cause for this to happen -- so what else?