Advancement Requirement
Bruce E. Cobern (bec@PIPELINE.COM)
Thu, 27 Jul 1995 12:16:53 -0400
On Wed, 26 Jul 1995 Jim Sleezer <JHS8%OSUVM1.BITNET@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
said:
>Requirement Number 7 for Tenderfoot says:
>
>Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol
flag.
>
>I recently sat on a Board of Review where a number of members of the new
>scout patrol appeared for Tenderfoot. The patrol has a name, but no flag
>and, to the best of my knowledge, no patrol yell. However, each scout had
>been given credit for having completed this requirement.
>
>If you were a member of the Board of Review, how would you have handled
the
>situation? I'll be glad to share how I handled it but I would appreciate
>some comments from the list before I do.
I would pass the Scouts on their Tenderfoot Board of Review, primarily
since the purpose of the B/R is not to retest the Scout on the
requirements. The purpose of the B/R is to review with the Scout what he
is getting out of the program and to determine if the troop is properly
administering that program.
Since that appears to be a problem with this particular requirement, the
next thing I would do is talk to whoever it was that signed off the
requirement and find out why it was signed. Then discuss what the B/R
feels should be required to pass the requirement and get the agreement of
the "signer" to do better next time.
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Bruce E. Cobern
Advancement Chairman
Dan Beard District
Queens Council, NY
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