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Iowa Republicans want public schools to hire untrained Christian chaplains
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This sounds like a potential disaster waiting to happen for child sexual abuse.
When the only protective filter to children in schools is 'they passed a background check', that is just asking for trouble.
That is not to say all these 'untrained Christian chaplains' will be sexual predators; by and far, I'm sure most of them will be fine people, albeit a bit religiously zealous, but that doesn't mean it wont happen.
Passing a background check doesn't mean you're not a sexual predator, it just means you haven't been caught yet, or you haven't been put in a position that you would act on those impulses yet if you have them. It doesn't matter the profession, this is always a risk, but at least limiting the pool of applicants to professionally trained personnel limits the risk.
I feel like this is one of those things that people will shout 'how could we have known', when it was obvious from the start. If this passes, and an incident occurs, those pushing the bill, and that voted for it should be held legally liable for child endangerment, and any reparations for harm caused. It's just bad policy.