[SCA-AE] ANNOUNCE: Background Check FAQ

[Andrew Hazen]

  If you do not intent on having a background check done, then what about these questions? As stupid as they sound, they have now become very real.
   
  What do you do if you are getting ready to teach a class, there are no other adults around, and a child shows up? 
   
  Do you:
  A)    Ask them to go get their parent.
  B)     Chase them out of the room with a broom.
  C)    Run away screaming like they have the plague.
   
  What do you do if the child is the first to your class and you have asked them to go get their parent but the child refuses?
   
  Do you:
  A)    Go out into the hall and wait for another adult to come to the class that way you can go back into the room and finish setting up for your class that now will run late because you could not set up sooner like planned
  B)     Leave the class room and area to go and find another adult. While leaving the child alone, open for attack from someone in our now not so trusted society. 
  C)    Cancel class and run away screaming like they have the plague.
   
   
  What do you do if you are the only adult walking along a path (day or night - say at Pennsic) and you come acrossed a lost child? 
   
  Do you:
  A)    Let natural instincts take over and help the child by escorting the child to a Coopper or Security. But now you are alone walking with a child. 
  B)     Maintaining a 50’-0” radius from the child while telling him that you are going to get help and to stay there.
  C)    If the child hasn’t spotted you, you turn around and make your escape before you are spotted. If you are spotted, then you run as fast as you can to a group of adults making sure to run fast enough that the child stays more then 50’-0” away.  
   
  Will the Coopper employees have Background Checks? Or are they doubling up?
   
  What do you do if you are the only parent in camp and your son or daughter brings a friend to your camp? (Pennsic or war practice question)
   
  Do you:
  A)    Tell your child that their friend is not allowed to cross the gate threshold till another adult comes in. 
  B)     Tell your child’s friend to get their parent so they can enter your camp and play. But the child is only allowed in your camp for as long as their parent is there.
  C)    Speak in a bad French accent and taunt your child’s friend from the battlements of your camp if you have them.
   
  I can see how the Background checks will help with something, but the common everyday things that happen at events are going to be hard to work with. 
   
  Some events have two kitchens (BMDL’s Dorseyville fire hall). One they cook in and the other they clean the pots in the other. If you’re the only one standing there washing dishes and a child bringing more dishes from other kitchen comes in. Do you have the child wait outside the door and announce his entrance to give you enough time to leave the kitchen so he can put them near the sink?
   
  Where are the lines drawn on this?
   
  Is there a booklet on this new background check so that we can read up on it?

       
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