[SCA-AE] ANNOUNCE: Background Check FAQ

[KaziBrionSCA]

Greetings,

There has been a misunderstanding.  I was describing a situation where the
child attends the class with the parents in absence of children's
activities.  The instructor can always put an age limit on kids attending
alone. I have been known to ask how age appropriate classes are if I had to
take one of our girls along.  We always carry entertainment for when they
get bored.  I know other parents who do the same.  Why does this appear to
be such a big deal?

Kazi


Greetings from Myfanwy!
Kazi wrote:
> And for those of you who might be concerned that the kid will poke 
> themselves with that file...a parent is right there.
Unfortunately, that has not been, in my experience, the case.  The problem
is that a parent is *not* there -- the parents are off doing what they want
to do (which has been a complaint I have heard in the past about childrens'
activities in general: that the parents basically dump the kids off at
childrens' activities and treat it as free babysitting for an hour or two,
instead of staying there themselves the way *I* understood was supposed to
happen).
I taught a class a number of years ago at an EKU.  The 10 year old daughter
of the people we were crashing with (and some other girl about the same age)
came to my class -- no parents to speak of.  The 10 year old was having some
problems, so I said that if she wanted I could re-show her when we got back
to her house that night.  Boy, the look I got!  (After all -- we had rolled
in the night before long after her bedtime, and she and her parents had gone
early to the site in the morning because her parents were running troll; add
to that seeing someone you've never met before that weekend in garb vs. in
mundane clothing.) Maybe if the parents talk to the instructor ahead of
time: "My kid has a relatively short attention span.  How detailed are the
instructions/lecture?
How dangerous are the tools you're going to be using?" (etc).  But I have
yet to see it happen.
People in the SCA tend to be pretty trusting, and then when something goes
wrong the BoD/autocrats/etc. have a knee-jerk reaction, scrambling to keep
themselves from getting sued.
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy at nauticom.net

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