Re: Parents as MB Councilors
GG Jenner (sdj@WHY.NET)
Sun, 31 Aug 1997 13:33:42 -0500
Have seen the statement of Scoutmaster *sending* the scout to a counselor
in several of the posts. Quote from Bruce Cobern:
>As long as the SCOUTMASTER sends the Scout to his parent as the counselor I
>agree with you. However, for anyone else to make that decision is the same
>type of violation of policy that you are referring to. Thus, IF a SM feels
>that no Scout should be counseled by his parent he is perfectly justified in
>NOT sending any Scouts to their parents.
In our Troop, District, and Council - The scout selects from a list of
approved MB counselors. The scout is responsible to contact this person
and make arrangements to meet and work on the MB. Some of the scouts have
gone out and recruited people from school and the community to work with
them on a MB (ie school librarian for Reading and Scholarship, school nurse
for First Aid, coach for Sports and Physical Fitness).
The SM does not assign or approve a counselor, the district and council
does the approval and the SM just supplies their list to the scouts.
BTW - We do have a strict policy in our troop that a parent does not sign
off on any requirement, and have carried that over to MB work also. For
almost all silver ring MB we have 2 counselors per MB within the troop (and
on district list) or the SM is the counselor and he doesn't have any
children so no conflict there. <VBG>
YIS - Ginger
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| Gladys "Ginger" Jenner, ASM Troop 502, Longhorn Council |
* Ft.Worth, TX; email: sdj@why.net / ginger.jenner@juno.com *
| I used to be a Buffalo (SC-338) |
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