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Originally Posted by Steve Yasick
Here is what we plan to do to at Zeeland to work with the volunteer screening. I think it will be legal and satisfy FIRST
FIRST directed them to the quote below.
"Are there any exemptions for people screened through other processes?
The following is the only exemption: Adults who have been screened by a public school system to work with youth are exempt from the background screening and reference check process. (Those exempted and screened by a public school system may include currently employed teachers, other currently employed school employees, and current school volunteers.) The team leader should maintain documentation that the mentors have been screened by the school."
Steve Yasick
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Does anyone else see the faulty reasoning with this type of policy?
I've said before, that I'm an employee of DoD and subject to periodic reinvestigations on a very rigid schedule. I submit to background checks that are standardized across the country. I go through the same investigation that someone in Hawaii or Guam goes through as the "checklist" is standard. How many of you that have been cleared by the high and mighty "public school" systems say that? Your background check is probably based at best, on a statewide standard, but more likely that not on a district basis.
I feel that it is asinine for FIRST to grant the public school empire to be the only group exempt from a centralized background investigation program, if they wind up deciding to go that route.
See you on the high ground!
Jim