Re: Scouts & Scouters Genders
Jack Rabon (rabonj@JUNO.COM)
Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:10:51 PST
Tim expressed what I had observed as well, and I have found a good
solution. My daughter joined a local Civil Air Patrol squadron, and has
had a great time. Adults, and especially parents, are welcomed warmly
and can be put to work helping the youth program. Adults join as senior
members, and have multiple training paths they could take. Youth of both
sexes join as cadets, and work together doing many of the activities I
did while in BSA 30 odd years ago.
In addition to the camping, survival skills, hiking, and pioneering you
will find some high tech & science oriented things: packet radio, clover
HF ties, aircraft navigation, GPS, loran, cadets working with experienced
dog teams looking for missing children in the national forest (CAP is big
on search and rescue). Cadets using DF gear looking for emergency locator
transmitters and marine EPIRB's, learning aerospace education items,
cadet orientation flights, visits to nuclear subs, Army communication
units, Shuttle launches, family day on an aircraft carrier, riding Army
landing craft out to an island for overnight camping, using Air Force
simulators, and so on.
If you want to do it together, this might be your solution too.
Sometimes I think that the CAP cadet program might be the best kept
national secret . . .
YIS,
- Jack
> I've been following this thread and mulling over my own feelings for a
> while now < snip >
> My daughter is a girl scout, and complains that I always do special
> things with her brother, but not with her. Since she was a brownie, I
> have frequently offered to help out <snip>
> The response has been consistently negative. I'm not wanted, not
> welcome, go away you slimy pervert. Well, it hurts a little, but I'm
> pretty thick-skinned <big snip>
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