Re: merit badge counselors

> From: Thomas W. Strong Jr. <strong@DEMENTIA.ORG>
> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 1:57 PM
>
> The council that I'm most involved in (Greater Pittsburgh) accepts that,
> but the advancement committee has placed a constraint on the counselors
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> while a boy may earn any number of badges from a given counselor, no
> counselor is permitted to counsel any given boy on more than 5 merit
> badges.

A clear violation of national policy, as long as the SM signed the card
and approved the use of that particular counselor for each of the merit
badges.
>
> Likewise, while national states that there is no limit to the number of
> badges a counselor may be approved for, this council has decided that it
> will not approve any counselor for more than 10.

Another violation on national policy. If the counselor is QUALIFIED for
more than 10 and chose to protest the council would have a difficult time
sustaining this rule.
>
> It seems like a lot of hair-splitting, but that's how the advancement
> committee interprets the rules (or at least that's how it was explained
> to me). I would be interested in how the interpretation would stand in
> an appeal to national...

If either of those got to national the Scout or Counselor would win and
the council would lose.

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Bruce E. Cobern
Advancement Chairman, Founders District, Queens, NY
mailto:bec@pipeline.com

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