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2 hours ago, Keith Hall said:

In 1975 DCI was quick to DQ Muchachos for overage members but how quick have they been to deal with the more serious issues that have risen in DCI lately? So is overage a more important issue than abuse?

Hmmmmm

remember DCI is the corps, and the directors then are not the directors now.

 

that and the guy at Hawthorne wasn't well liked

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2 hours ago, Keith Hall said:

Maybe it's time to bring ALL of drum corps together (DCI and DCA) and put a NEW organization together and address these issues so that the negativity can be fixed!

DCA seems to be doing a better job

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2 hours ago, cixelsyd said:

Yes.  If member safety & staff training were a 20-point caption in the scoring system, suddenly corps would be focused on those things everyday.

DCP post of the last 4 years

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On 1/11/2022 at 9:06 AM, NewToPosting said:

"How do we train the staff?"  "How do we train the kids?" "How do we train the parents?"

Not a popular answer - but look at what WGI did this year.  EVERY participant had to take SafeSport training. Every staff member.  The training specifically answers those questions.  

This is not a "reinvent the wheel" scenario.  Other activities have figured it out.  There is a model already!!!  DCI need only adopt it. They are hell-bent on doing it the hard way, though (years and years later, still, for some reason).

Exactly. And as you state, this is not reinventing the wheel. The company I work for (23 years in March,) now has roughly 270,000 across all verticals in all countries (yes...you read that right.) And we manage to train EVERY SINGLE employee yearly. 90 hours for senior staff including trainers, 40 hours for mid level staff and 8 hours for hourly employees with no managed employees.

I help to re-write this curriculum yearly which includes health and safety, mandatory reporting, whistle blower (which we don't call whistle blower as it brings up some negative connotations in the current political climate which makes some lower level employees shy away,) sexual and general harassment and bullying prevention etc. It's a LOT. And yet, we manage to write it, deliver it (through e-learning,) track it (through an LMS) and hold accountable those who don't complete the training. And we are not exactly the brightest bulbs in the pack.

If we can do that with the size of employee base we have, DCI and the member corps could as well. 

This comes down to (as has been pointed out by many) a WILL vs. SKILL issue. 

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1 hour ago, mjoakes said:

There are protests about just about everything these days. I wonder what impact would be made if fans who are passionate about change organized attention-getting protests at the regionals and finals.

if they paid for a ticket and went in and watched DCI wouldn't care

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34 minutes ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:

Exactly. And as you state, this is not reinventing the wheel. The company I work for (23 years in March,) now has roughly 270,000 across all verticals in all countries (yes...you read that right.) And we manage to train EVERY SINGLE employee yearly. 90 hours for senior staff including trainers, 40 hours for mid level staff and 8 hours for hourly employees with no managed employees.

I help to re-write this curriculum yearly which includes health and safety, mandatory reporting, whistle blower (which we don't call whistle blower as it brings up some negative connotations in the current political climate which makes some lower level employees shy away,) sexual and general harassment and bullying prevention etc. It's a LOT. And yet, we manage to write it, deliver it (through e-learning,) track it (through an LMS) and hold accountable those who don't complete the training. And we are not exactly the brightest bulbs in the pack.

If we can do that with the size of employee base we have, DCI and the member corps could as well. 

This comes down to (as has been pointed out by many) a WILL vs. SKILL issue. 

All the training & policy in the world is moot if people ignore it.  
 

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3 hours ago, cixelsyd said:

Yes.  If member safety & staff training were a 20-point caption in the scoring system, suddenly corps would be focused on those things everyday.

Would love to be at the meeting if someone would suggest “for every incident a corps will drop one position prelims/finals”.

That includes dropping corps out of Finals.

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Just now, IllianaLancerContra said:

All the training & policy in the world is moot if people ignore it.  
 

Very true. And that's where the process has to have teeth. You have to be able to terminate the offender in our case, AND the company has to contact the appropriate authorities depending upon the situation. In our cases this is typically a fraud situation when that happens and not harassment but it still shows that the policy has teeth to it.

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12 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

IDK why he wasn’t liked - all he did was kill Garfield’s drum major.  
(I am not making this up). 

he was very critical of DCI. its well documented in the many Muchachos threads in the historical section

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