[Ansteorra] Fw: Youth Academy and office openings

[Stefen and Rhonda Hays]

It does my hart good to see so many interested in youth combat. To what is
being said, yes they can do most of the duties spoken of but with adult
supervision.  The adult is in charge of teaching, and if the youth want to
take control of said duties they can do so. But it is the adults
responsibility to supervise and to make sure things are being done safely.
It is important that the youth learn every aspect of what is going on so
they can do it them selves later in the game, but the most important thing
is for them to have fun.
Daire de Haya
Kingdom Youth Marshal
----- Original Message -----
From: <iainmacc at juno.com>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Fw: Youth Academy and office openings


>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:36:29 -0600 "Paul DeLisle" <ferret at hot.rr.com>
> writes:
> >
> > That is a major concept of *all* Youth activities (SCA, Mundane,
> > etc.)...that they are supervised/marshalled by "responsible" (i.e.
> > Adult)
> > supervision. Let's not get too far into the realm of the
> > un-realistic here,
> > folks. These are *children*; legally, and (for the most part)
> > morally......
> > being taught a potentially deadly art... it is incredibly
> > unreasonable to
> > assume that they can Marshal themselves (...does anyone remember
> > "Miri" from
> > the old Star Trek?)
> >
> > They are doing a great job in learning the Artes...let's not screw
> > it up by
> > assuming they can Marshall themselves, too...
> >
>
>         I don't really think such an assumption is being made. I suspect
> it's more the assumption that, like any complex skill, it becomes much
> more reliable if it's actually practiced instead of the student being
> merely told about it. Personally, I think that a list for the youth that
> was being run by a List Mistress and a youth List Mistress-in-Training,
> Marshalled by pairs of Youth Marshals and youth Marshals-in-Training,
> would be a good idea. If it were done, then we could have Marshals and
> List Mistresses who were reliable and experienced at eighteen, instead of
> limiting that to just the fighters. Why practice the dangerous part and
> then fail to practice the parts that make it safe?
>         No, of course you don't let them go by themselves. In an amazing
> number of ways, the law sees no distinction between someone one day short
> of their eighteenth birthday and a newborn infant. In the same way, it
> tends to ignore any difference between a person who is eighteen today and
> his/her grandfather. But there is a difference, and that experience does
> count.
>         We who stand in range of a piece of rattan slung into the crowd
> because it had no lanyard, we who pay the doctor bills for any injuries,
> we who worry about CPS being called because our child goes to school
> covered in bruises... we should expect better of ourselves, and how we
> teach.
>
>
>                                       Iain MacCrimmon
>
>                     Cave Tyranniam Timorium Suorum
>
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