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Presumably they are exempt because they aren’t members. Might consider contacting usef for confirmation.
Let us recall that the people who are posting on COTH b*tching about this have the time and resources to
- take a luxury pet to a horse show and ride it around a sand ring in front of a judge as a recreational activity
- get their entries in for above item
- b*tch online, so clearly your internet connection is working as well.
So perhaps you can get over yourselves and rustle up the additional life and internet skills to run the training in a separate tab while you are doing the rest of your online activity and perhaps be willing to become a more informed and vigilant member of the sport without throwing a tantrum about it.
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Thank you.
Lord am I tired of people who still yammer about “tech skill” issues in 2018.
It’s not tech skill anymore, by now it’s just “life skills”.
Stop expecting everyone else to bend over backwards and excuse or accommodate your refusal to get with the program. It’s the digital equivalent of “I don’t feel like learning what the buttons do on the washing machine, so can everyone else please do it for me, give me a special exemption to wear filthy clothes to work, or wait for/assist me while I handwash everything in a bucket by the river.”
And this is an internet based recreational luxury sport pet forum so nobody even start warming up the “disadvantaged” or “lack of access” nonsense. Puhleeze.
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Lipstick on a pig.
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If you actually care, and are not just pot-stirring, contact the USEF and ask.
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To all the grouchy nay sayers.
This is your world. Wake up to life in your world.
Be aware of warning signs in your world.
It can and may happen to you.
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Now how is that a purposeful comment adding to the discussion?
It was an honest question. I was surfing on the COTH BB, the article did not address the topic, so curiosity overcame me and the question popped in my head.
I am sure that at the time when I go to prepare a show entry I will confirm the requirements with USEF.
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I truly do not understand why people are having an aneurysm about the training. Just let it run while you do something else. It’s not hard. Really. I have to do about 8 CBTs a year on a government computer. Ya wanna talk about crappy internet? The other night I managed to get six CBT modules done in about two hours. Y’all are acting like the USEF is asking for a kidney.
I am appaled at the amount of push back. “Let’s get all up in arms on the internet about sexual harassment, assault, rape, bullying etc but please don’t ask me to use the internet to comply with training about that.”
Unbelievable.
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If you only show once in a blue moon, by the time you need to know you’ll need to double check all requirements anyway. Going directly to USEF is more reliable than a horse forum anyway.
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If one can take a poll online one can take training online.
Honestly, with the everyday reality that people order things on Walmart, go to package pickup and use the app to tell the store is coming, I am 100% NOT BUYING any argument around ‘tech skill’.
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Wow, woke up on the wrong side of the bed? I would add that internet skills might include having some level of tact participating in on-line discussions. Having a discussion should not include putting people down because you don’t have any meaningful addition to the conversation.
There are a LOT of us with super busy lives - internet skills is not my problem, I’m self employed and run two businesses. Adding several hours of on-line training that is not relevant IS a burden, whether it is to YOUR life or not, it is to MINE. Gotta love when people assume that we are all in the same life situations. We are not.
And most of you live in urban areas where internet is fast and reliable. I can tell you that internet in the country is NOT, and getting on COTH (or doing legal research) is MUCH different then on-line training modules which take much more bandwidth - so there is an internet reality many of you don’t deal with. And don’t tell me to do it at work, I’m self employed - and do work that does not give me ANY down time or internet access…
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You are literally on the internet right now. Instead of chatting, watch the video.
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Exactly…
My curiosity was raised because the COTH article did not address how TPTB were planning to manage the show entries that were currently paying non-member fees.
Rest assured I will make sure to check whenever my young horse is ready to go out in public. The question posed on this BB was just an idle rumination.
And BTW, I am not complaining and do plenty of on-line legally required compliance modules on assorted topics dealing with HR topics (sexual harassment) to business practices (anti-trust).
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I show just a few times a year, am an amateur, over 70, and found the training pretty easy to complete. Took one cup of coffee…
of course circumstances are different for everyone so I don’t mean to vompare my time, WiFi, etc but I am glad that USEF is doing something to put everyone, including predators on alert.
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You just wrote that online, in three paragraphs, so presumably this is slight hyperbole.
I just took the training. It took an hour and twenty minutes; my computer and wifi are slow and I’ve often had issues with online training things before, but this one was well set up and went smoothly. Each module is probably about half an hour-ish, so you can do it in multiple segments, and it lets you pick up where you left off, so you can do it for 5 minutes here and there and then continue later.
My only suggestion to the creators is that it would probably be more useful if they did two options, one for coaches and one for participants/athletes, and perhaps eventually branched out to doing one specifically for minors and parents, and then let everyone pick which one was most applicable to them. Hopefully that’s an eventual goal.
I teach in an inner-city school. Not all of my kids have internet access at home. But all of them have a McDonald’s with free wifi within walking distance, or a library with computers, or a study hall, or something. So I’m sympathetic that internet access isn’t always easy for everyone, but I also think everyone can manage it with minor discomfort.
So yeah, it’s a minor burden and annoyance, sure. But if it helps people become more aware of reporting procedures and how to notice more subtle signs of abuse or misconduct, it’s absolutely worth it.
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You post here a good bit for someone living in a hut on the plains.
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It is a training module that is, at most - 90 minutes.
if you browse this forum and other horsie sites for 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, well I’m no stable genius but that’s almost 90 minutes out of your exceptionally amazingly busy life.
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I’m going to try to take the training on my nook from a hotel room in October since it will have wifi, and I’ll have the time to wait for videos to load, etc., which is typically more of a challenge than on a laptop would be. No way is the work computer letting me stream videos online, even for all the various personal uses allowed. And I don’t have a personal laptop because I use the work laptop and don’t want two.
So I have a way to do it. And I think the training is a very good idea - if it helps even protect one more innocent child, it is worth it, and I suspect for those of us who have not dealt with this kind of grooming and abuse it would help many more.
However, most of the suggestions of how one should get online would not work for me - and if you have wifi, you have a FAR better internet connection than is available to me at home. I work from home via a work hotspot, which again - will not allow the videos to stream. But I don’t really know how my trainer will manage to do the training, for example. He also lives in an area with no high speed internet, works out of his home, doesn’t have a laptop… There are plenty of possibilities of ways those who don’t have internet should be able to take the training - but buying a new laptop and sitting in a public location for however long it takes to get the videos to work on public wifi isn’t a reasonable one to expect of anyone who doesn’t already have the means.
Some kind of available printed out forms which can be ordered could work. Training at shows, as emipou suggested, because this is across Olympic sports having training centers to go into are another option. Flash drives with the training could work, too. Submitting a completed certificate electronically is something computers from the stone age can manage, whereas completing the videos isn’t.
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I repeat, you can literally do the training from your phone.
there is free Wi-Fi readily available close to you if you do not want to use your data.
if you are going to a horse show because you never ever ever go anywhere else, and thats literally the only reason you MUST do the training, budget time to stop at walmart or McDonald’s.
if you don’t show anyway, this does not apply to you, so don’t fret.
this is not onerous.
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I am not really sure why people have to get so nasty towards the OP, I agree that it is something that could perhaps be mandated for coaches and parents and available to anyone else who wished to take it.
These mandatory training videos are usually a money maker for someone.
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