All-Star Is This For Real?

[King]

Ugh @King why did you ban my alias? Now what am I supposed to do with my free time?

Hate on Climpson

 

[Eyes On The Prize]

you think you have it bad? im not gonna meet my most negative ratings goal by new years. i only have 26 hours left and 13 dislikes to go.

You better post something really bad then. You know, bring in the new year with a bang. Set your pace for 2015 :P

 

[InfinitiElite]

Yes. It was posted within the last couple of weeks. It is a good start. Hopefully further requirements versus suggestions will be put in place very soon.

"You are only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty."

I thought it came out today because my area USASF rep posted it on Facebook today with a comment similar to "hey gym owners it may be good to take a look at this". I thought it was interesting timing. I'm a little put off that speaking with parents, or encouraging the child to talk to their parents if it's appropriate. I am also a little put off about the whole find the child a therapist or a counselor. I kind of fell like its overstepping a boundary.

 

[njallday]

Anyone see this?

http://usasf.net.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2013 Website/Support/docs/USASF_Programs_AthleteProtection.pdf

it still says background checks **should** be done on all staff. sighhhhh. make it a requirement of member gyms. don't leave it optional.

is this is response to illinois' debacles or competition pictures making their way to a porn website?

 

[azune]

it still says background checks **should** be done on all staff. sighhhhh. make it a requirement of member gyms. don't leave it optional.

is this is response to illinois' debacles or competition pictures making their way to a porn website?

Pictures showed up on a porn website!? That is completly terrible and disgusting.

 

[coachrah]

She was truly trying to defend that he was just a tumbling coach, while not actually saying that because he wasn't a cheer coach, it was ok!

Yes, but aren't tumbling coaches part of most cheer staffs? Do cheer athletes take tumbling lessons?

 

[SkyBlue]

The absolute best suggestion that is missing from this list is for gym owners to install camera's in their building. The systems out there now are reasonably priced and almost all good systems can be logged into wirelessly from just about anywhere on pretty much any device. It is probably the best business investment an owner can make and it can lower your insurance rates. Not only good for looking out for inappropriate behavior, but for going back and reviewing when you have that disgruntled kid or parent who hasn't gotten their way accusing a coach or a team mate of doing something. You can very simply say, let's review the video.

 

[SkyBlue]

Yes, but aren't tumbling coaches part of most cheer staffs? Do cheer athletes take tumbling lessons?

Yes! I did see a post from a parent there that said this guy was their child's tumbling coach. Shes on a cheer team so the argument that he had nothing to do with cheerleaders and only coached power tumbling doesn't fly. They did do the right thing and immediately fire him, but my concern is the excuses being made to try and distance him from the cheerleaders. It doesn't matter, every person in there is an athlete.

 

[chyeeaaa69]

What? When? Where?

I forget the charges the coach actually faced, but essentially he was having a sexual relationship with an athlete at the gym. The relationship was consented by both, but she was under 18. At least that's my understanding

 

[Eyes On The Prize]

Cheer Mom Shocker Victorias Secret Saleswoman Accused of Having Sex with Teen

Why is the "Cheer Mom" part even important? :banghead:

 

[gofriars610]

Cheer Mom Shocker Victorias Secret Saleswoman Accused of Having Sex with Teen

Why is the "Cheer Mom" part even important? :banghead:

Salacious headline = clicks = $$$$$$$

 

[JMW]

Salacious headline = clicks = $$$$$$$

I thought the same thing at first, but another article I read indicated that she met him while serving in an official role as "team mom" for the cheer team. It seemed to have at least a little relevance in that sense.

Although, really, what you said is true too.

 

[getsum]

Anyone see this?

http://usasf.net.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2013 Website/Support/docs/USASF_Programs_AthleteProtection.pdf

i have a problem with this : "Giving a ride should be done by the same sex"

that's assuming that a female would never take advantage of another female nor would a male take advantage of another male. that should really be omitted. if i ran a gym, coaches that gave rides would be logged and provided with a gym provided car cam to record the rides home. then those videos would be stored. failure to log themselves and appropriately record and submit video files, to be stored, would result in penalties ranging from warnings up to dismissal from the job position. this would both protect the kid, coach and gym.

i also have an issue with the "common characteristics" section. let face it, lots of people might think that they can become armchair psychologists and masters of observing behavior, but that requires lots of training. those common characteristics would have people looking for someone that they saw in a movie, someone that was obvious and expressed those characteristics to a great degree for the movie. a true manipulator will be very sly, so much so that most people would gloss over the miniscule expressions of the deviant behavior. evidence: the majority of abuse perpetrators are people within the family or someone that the family knows and trusts. also, other characteristics are not as obvious as they might seem. low self-esteem for example. what are most people going to think of? most likely the dejected eeyore type. how many people who have not had, or even had, training in psychology would know that chronic anger, especially in males, is a sign of depression and low self-esteem or that ultra high self-esteem is also a sign of low self-esteem. instead of turning people into armchair psychologists, gyms should just have cam systems in every part of the gym (minus privacy areas of course), as was already stated above.

also, don't let kids who have claimed to be victims of abuse be interviewed/questioned by anyone, not even police nor lawyers, other than a mental health professional who is well-versed in this area. interviewing/questioning by anyone else can lead to disaster for the prosecuting team representing someone who was truly a victim of abuse and for the defense team of someone being falsely accused of abuse.

(yay... my dusty psych and child development degrees are being put to use)

 

[mamabear]

The Girl Scouts have the same sex rule too, but they also want a second adult there at all times too.

 

[canz]

No one should be questioning a child unless properly qualified to do so. In New Zealand the only people who would do this would be our specialist child protection unit who would carry out an evidential interview.