Scoutmaster Training

Re the Scoutmaster that will not attend training. It has been my experience
with a couple or three of that type, that when you talk to them about it,
most of the time the response is something like this. "I have been a hunter
and fisher and camper all my life, and in addition I was a Ranger in the
Army, so what can BSA teach me about how to go camping or living in the
woods". When you tell them that training is more than just how to go
camping, they say that they have a committee person to take care of the
paper work that BSA requires, so what could they gain from the training.

In general, I think that the best way to get someone like this involved in
training is to sell them on how much fun they will have as a part of the
training class, or to find something that they are very good at, perhaps
wilderness survival or camp fire cooking, and invite them to join the staff
to teach that, after all most of the time the teachers end up perhaps
learning more than the students, and they will see the benifits from the
training.

YIS, Olan Watkins

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