In a previous article, "Courtney" said:
The first time you were on moving water could you control your boat
perfectly or have you never in your paddling history run into anyone?

As I said earlier, the first time I was on the water, I was given a few
minutes of instruction on basic canoe control before I was allowed to go
somewhere where I could be a menace to myself and others. This flotilla
of doom had both girls and boys in it, and most of them didn't know what
the hell they were doing. I think it's irresponsible of leaders to set
kids loose without basic instruction. If that had been my kids (and if I
hadn't given them instruction already) and I saw them lurching along like
that, I would have pulled them out of whatever program they were in and
found another program with competent leadership.

If these were boys scouts would you have been just as offended? You seemed
to really be dogging them out because they were girls.

What the hell difference does their gender make? I identified them as
girls because that's what they were, not because that makes any
difference in the idiocy of sending kids out with no instruction. I'd
like to know where you got this idea I was "dogging them out because they
were girls". I think you're revealing your own predjudices.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
please excuse my typing, but my whole left arm is in a cast. and i don't
mean _the king and i_.