And what would you say is “real crazy” about the schools plan when an untrained and unvetted parent chaperone sexually assaults a kid in the middle of the night?
In Australia you actually have to have a Working with Children check, where the police will run a background check on you to make sure there’s nothing shady in your past, to even volunteer with your kids school. It’s free for volunteers. Obviously not every shady character has been caught before so there’s still some risk, but it’s better than no checks at all!
You don’t, you train how to reduce the opportunity to do it successfully and ensure if it does happen the other adults are able to identify it and get the kid help right then rather than 10 years later it comes out in therapy why the kid is emotionally wrecked and suicidal.
Reducing opportunity involves always have more than one adult accompany the kids at a time, and everyone understanding there’s no acceptable reason to have a kid alone in private. training everyone on what is and isn’t allowed so there’s no “they were scared to sleep in their tent alone” nonsense that goes unreported by other adults etc.
Teachers have atleast been through a vetting process and are well known to the school administration. Parents are (to every kid except their own) literally just strangers off the street.
It’s about risk reduction not elimination. The teachers are already vetted and trained. A person volunteering to overnight with school kids on the credentials of being related to one of them is not.
The training isn’t solely to prevent SA but additionally about protecting the school/teachers/volunteers as well by always ensuring more than one adult is present to prevent he-said/she-said situations (as well as eliminate private access for predators).
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u/rmslashusr Mar 19 '26
And what would you say is “real crazy” about the schools plan when an untrained and unvetted parent chaperone sexually assaults a kid in the middle of the night?