Re: Leadership Corps

>I beg to differ with some of the points made by Mike Walton on the "failure"
>of the Leadership Corps.
>
>As I have noted in recent postings, I am fairly new to scouting. So new, in
>fact, that I was unaware that the LC program had failed. It is even more
>surprising to me in my role as advisor to our troop's LC patrol. Whether you
>call the group of older boys with leadership qualities LC, Varsity, Senior
>Patrol, etc. is irrelevant -- what you do for these boys and what they do for
>the troop is what's important.
>
>On the point of making these senior boys into a patrol, in our troop, it is
>the boys (not the scoutmaster) that want to have their own patrol. The LC
>Patrol not only gives these boys an identity, but also provides a basis for
>team work to meet the demands of leadership and guidance to younger scouts.
>

But this LC Patrol that your Troop has established is not a part of the
program of the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA has discontinued
the use of the leadership corps as a part of BSA Scouting. Even so,
the leadership corp as originally designed was not intended as a
super patrol.

If your LC works for your Troop, I guess that's great, but please remember
that this is a program of your Troop extraneous to the methods of the BSA.
Wouldn't you agree with that characterization?
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