[MR] Society Notice

[william drake]

morons, all of you, the entire last one of sca in charge and making policy 
is the most anal retentive bunch of idiot, scared bunch of weenies. you only 
live to make another policy or rule to protect you from a frickin hobby! 
this is truly one of the most incredibly f*&ed-up groups i have ever 
encountered, and i have no reservations leaving and finding a new hobby. 
this is the absolout last stupid bit this hobby-nazis group can do to piss 
me off!

uilleam


>From: "Wayne (Axel) Remes" <wremes at carolina.rr.com>
>To: "'Merry Rose'" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
>CC: jwilliams at director.sca.org
>Subject: Re: [MR] Society Notice
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:34:52 -0400
>
>
>You gotta be kidding me...and the Kingdom's gonna have to bankroll the
>background checks of every Youth Marshal. Youth MIT, Children's Activities
>Minister from Canton thru kingdom, are they insane!
>
>Looking at the Kingdom webpage we currently have 17 youth Marshals, 8 Youth
>MITs, the Earl Marshal, and 7 Chancellor of Youth staff positions. No idea
>how many local minister of youth offices are filled. Assuming that they use
>something like NC123 at 19.95 a pop just to meet the requirements with the
>inadequate people resources we got now is gonna cost the Kingdom $638.00
>probably a lot more, and that's the low end of the scale, if they do any
>sort of real background check it's cost more. We desperately need more
>people involved in all these activities, and should not be making it harder
>to get people involved. Leave it to the BOD to, instead of coming up with
>rational procedures like say...requiring there to be at least 2 adults
>present at all times at youth activities at a SCA event, or requiring the
>kids parents be in attendance at any local SCA non event activity, the BOD
>comes up with this stupidity.
>
>
>And I might add it is NOT "...WORTH NOTING that these measures are less
>stringent than those being used today by the Boy Scouts of America."
>We don't as normal planned events take kids out into the woods for 
>prolonged
>periods without their parents being there. In fact Parents are discouraged
>from dropping their kids at SCA functions and leaving site.
>
>This is bullshit....and ranks right up there with the Banning of ALL minors
>from the list field even if they were already authorized and had parental
>approval to be there, as occured in the mid 80s.
>
>
>
>Axel
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
>[mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Amy Heilveil
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:35 AM
>To: Merry Rose; Attilium at googlegroups.com
>Subject: [MR] Society Notice
>
>Passing along information.... Despina
>
> > In response to repeated occurences of the SCA having to deal with abuse 
>of
> > minors by SCA participants, risk to our membership from such predatorial
> > behavior, and legal liabilities if we fail to execute proper due
> > diligence, the SCA will be implementing a background check program to
> > minimize risk of harm to our people and the organization. This program
> > will revolve around conducting--via a properly licensed 
>vendor--background
> > checks on all persons wishing to serve in a leadership or supervisory
> > position where minors are expected to be taking direction from--or be in
> > the direct control of adults who are not their parent or legal guardian.
> >
> > An example of officials who must receive the background check are:  
>Youth
> > activities officers at all levels, Adults acting as youth marshals for 
>any
> > martial activity, persons organizing/in charge of youth activities for 
>an
> > event.
> >
> > These checks will return a pass/fail status.  A pass status will cause 
>the
> > corporate office to issue a card good for two years that must be 
>presented
> > in order to be accepted as an official as described above.
> >
> > It is expected that this process will be streamlined and simplified as
> > much as possible without invalidating the value of the background checks
> > themselves.  The cost of the checks will be billed back to the Kingdoms
> > whose programs these volunteers are supporting.
> >
> > It is worth noting that these measures are less stringent than those 
>being
> > used today by the Boy Scouts of America.
> >
> > Further details, to include the actual process and an implement-by date
> > will accompany the implementing guidelines to be issued after the April
> > Board Meeting.
> >
> >
> >
> > Aaron Faheud Swiftrunner of the Stone Keep OL OP
> > c/o George L. Reed
> >
> > Society Seneschal and Vice President of Operations
> > SCA, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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