Benjamin Levin criticized background checks for youth workers

The high-profile educator and civil servant arrested last week on child pornography charges publicly criticized criminal background checks for people working with children in an essay published last month.

In the Literary Review of Canada’s June cover story, Benjamin Levin wrote that schools need to be more deeply engaged in their communities by partnering with ethnic groups, cultural associations and social programs such as food co-ops.

He regrets that these partnerships are all too rare and “made more difficult by various rules with good intentions but sometimes bad consequences, such as the requirement that all adults working with students must undergo criminal record checks.”  (more...)

Benjamin Levin criticized background checks for youth workers