Re: Troop discipline (carrot or stick?)
Al West (awest@CLN.ETC.BC.CA)
Mon, 14 Mar 1994 20:40:57 -0500
Steve,
I have some overly exuberant scouts too and they disrupted my first
three meetings. Court of Honour was used to solve the problem and here is
what we did.
First in a presentation to Group Committee we (PLs and I) explained what
was happening without naming names because some of these scouts parents are
active on our Group Committee.
Second we request the following proceedure be adopted as standard.
If a scout is behaving in a way which is not safe, ie. his actions
could
cause harm to himself or others he shall be asked to phone home and
leave the meeting immediately upon his parents arrival. No
discussion,
no pennance(sp) just gone!
It is clear simple and to date very effective (I'll really have to watch
out at our next meeting now <(;-)>). It puts the result on the actions of
the scout, not on the scout as a bad person or any guilt etc. It works like
Instant Karma you messup-you gone!
Everyone knows in advance, the Group Committee blesses it and the boys know
it will happen. As I say we've not had to do it yet but it is there. Patrol
Leaders use casual reminders when they see some unsafe behaviour starting
and curb it.
Hope this works for you too, but be sure all your ducks are in a row -
first.
YIS Al
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