FIRST Youth Protection Program

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Originally Posted by Foster

Welcome to the post "Sandusky" / "Catholic Church priest" world. People we trusted couldn't be trusted. So rather than define your own trust, we have swung the other way to a default of "no trust". I agree its a sad state of affairs, but we all code software for "this could never happen, but ...." and this is a real world case.

It's sad to realize that people might join FIRST in order to get to kids. Two local teachers got in trouble for something like this. One teacher (a 70 year old woman) paid a kid $20 to clean the outside of his house, and the other became facebook friends with a student. It seems to me like common sense that a 70 year old librarian who worked at the school for the past 30 years and is respected and known by the town wouldn't try to harm a 18 year old kid, but common sense isn't that common .

Originally Posted by Tungrus

don't want to turn this into political or religious fight....

just that even with YPP, these people (that you have listed) could not be stopped.

True. IMHO, the reason that part was added was to help protect FIRST if something bad were to happen.