**IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Follow-up to the new FIRST Youth Protection and Adult

[jneumiller]

Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton

Actually I am surprised that FIRST has to do this. When I was in high school, all mentors, college students, and engineers had to fill out a form for a background check. This just doesn't apply to my FIRST team, but every adult that is a mentor. I thought it was a federal law or something like that.

Kyle...

With all this protection in place...why do I see a story a week about a teacher doing something inappropriate with a student? It wouldn't matter if it were an intergalactic law, dumb people will do dumb things.

Background checks don't stop problems like this....teachers, mentors and students who police their own ranks do.

See you on the high ground!

Jim