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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Loomis [SMTP:dloomis@NH.ULTRANET.COM]
> Subject: Re: Baloo's Training
>
> OK, so scout leaders will have 3 months from 1 Aug to attend a
> yet-to-be-announced outdoor(?) training or they can no longer take
> scouts camping?
>
> [Randall C. Reed] Am I just being simplistic or is it not
> reasonable to expect that the source of the requirement would also supply
> the solution (i.e., a six-hour training course teaching outline and
> learning objectives)? As a professional instructional systems designer, I
> have a high regard for published BSA training materials. They have been
> uniformly excellent. It is difficult for me to believe that National would
> create an essentially "unfunded mandate" to provide training yet fail to
> prescribe the elements that should be in it. A six-hour training course
> can be more difficult to design than a six-day course on the same
> topic(s). With something as broad as outdoor campcraft skills, and (I
> presume) BSA G2SS, a six-hour course would have to be assembled very
> carefully to be effective. Comments?
>
Randall C. Reed
Scoutmaster, Troop 543
Sanford, Florida
Central Florida Council
"...I used to be a Buffalo..."
>

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