Although many of you out there have little curatorial supervision of docents and minimal supervision or ongoing information updates, the museum I work at has both.  And we have just as much of a problem with "Docent Stories".  Our docent training is half taught by the curator, and
half taught by a man who worked on our site (a farm) in the '30's, but we still occasionally hear the most bizarre stories coming from our docents.   I do think these stories come from "experts" and a need to seem informed when they don't know the answer to a question.  We try to
subtly give correct information in our docent newsletter that accompanies their monthly schedule. This way all of the docents are filled in the subject.  This may be cumbersome for some organizations, but is works well for us and avoids having to chastise a docent (and potentially
run them off)

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