"Brian Lafferty" wrote in message
newscHNj.7341$HJ1.2689@trndny01...

YOU made the representation regarding state child welfare service. If you
won't provide verifiable specifics, one can only conclude that you are
bull****ting.

This is a matter about reporting in a decent manner especially of children
[that includes you and me, and all others]. At minimum, differentiating
charges or accusations from actual findings, and at least attempting an
impartial recording of events.

You surely can't think that those who have to do with auditing who gets near
our kids can ever fail to ask questions on people's orientation these days?
A national agency operating here in Vermont told me that after screening
their California agency rejects 50% of volunteers as 'unsuitable'. Sound
real to you?

The idea of you serving on any state board having to do with child
welfare is as frightening as it is sadly amusing.

On whose opinions should we attend in the matter of child welfare?

NO MORE THAN NORMAL

I even called 3 years ago, pre-Sloan on board, for background checks on all
USCF board members and Officers - to a perfunctory level at least
[high-school level screening]. I wonder how many people here would think
that necessary, to either (a) protect children, or (b) protect USCF.

The usual dismissal of the issue is that it would be too expensive - yet
methinks law suits more so.

That measure is now standard for other organisations to which children are
the prime market - Little League, Boy Scouts of America etc. Where it is
definitely not thought to be any sort of option - but it still is in chess
where extracting normative standards which accord with our society is like
finding hen's teeth.

In other messages recently I have asked if people would merely declare their
relationship with USCF if they receive any compensation from it - if they
also make public comments. That normal standard or reporting is also
seemingly very hard to understand. It is also entirely normal to resent
proxy representations in politics at large, even if we must suffer them as a
measn to avoid normal conditions of fair speech.

THE FATAL SHORE

When these two factors of children and decency in reporting combine,
incomprehension becomes complete, the wind shrieks louder through the
rigging and there is no avoiding the lee-shore, since it would have been
prudent to pursue another course some tides ago...

Phil Innes