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Re: ASM father signing off on rank advancement?
Bruce E. Cobern (bec@PIPELINE.COM)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:48:44 -0400
From: Sarah Nunez <trinoaks@FLASH.NET>
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 11:48 PM
>One of our ASMs asked me this evening about BSA policy regarding
signing
>his son off on a couple of the requirements for Tenderfoot
There are two separate questions here, one of which is much easier to
answer than the other.
The question of CAN he sign things off for his son is the easier one to
answer, and the answer is that "it depends." Scouting has no
prohibition on the practice. However, the decisions about who is
eligible to sign off advancement to First Class is specifically left to
the SM to maintain a list of who is eligible to sign off the various
requirements. That can be the SM, the SA's, older Scouts, etc. That
decision is the troop's, through the SM. SO, if the troop policy is
that this SA could sign this requirement off for some other Scout AND
the troop's policy does not prohibit a parent from signing off his own
son's advancement (which it could), then there is no problem.
The more difficult question of SHOULD he do it I will leave to another
time.
--
Bruce E. Cobern
mailto:bec@pipeline.com
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