Re: BSA:Women at camp

> We have a Mom that wants to attend camp with her son. She has been a Den
> leader and Weeblos leader for several years. Her son is in the Troop now
> and she wants to continue in troop activities with her boys. The problem
> came up during the fall camp. She was very critical of how the camp was
> run. Some of her issues are valid and some are not. I will not go into
> everything here.
>
> This is my main question. Should Moms go to Camp?

First answer: Sure mons should go to camp.

Second answer: There seems to be two questions here, first should
womem in general be allowed to go the Boy Scout camps? The second is how
to you handle someone, male or female, who attends camp and has criticisms
of the camp?

As in my first answer, I see no reason why women should not be at camp
or hold scoutmaster positions. Yes there is a need for positive male role
models, but that is not a problem unless all the scoutmaster in the troop
a women. Also, it seems to me that it is getting harder to find enough
men to become scoutmasters, therefore we need the women that are interested.

As to her complaints about the camp let me put it this way. How would
you handle a man who had the same complaints? Respond to the complaints the
same way as you would if they came from a man.

Just my 2 cents,
Tom Granvold
Scoutmaster Troop 436
Sunnyvale, California

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