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"common sense and the dumb police"

Wendie Howland (WAHowland@AOL.COM)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:44:09 EDT


>>begin quote

Lets keep on applying the 'dumbness' test and not be afaid to tell

it like it is. Who wants to join me in being a founding member of

the 'dumb' police?

<<end quote

OK by me, so long as you are able to separate out the truly dumb and stupid
(Like, "Is it OK to put a clothespin on the tongue of a Scout who talks too
much?", as was recently seen on rec.scouting, BION) from the merely uninformed
(like "What is this ribbon I got along with my green knot and what do I do
with it?" -- that was me <G>).

You gotta try to remember what it felt like to be a total newbie in the
Scouting biz, and how you were received by people whose opinion mattered to
you. Perhaps you were a newbie whose council didn't provide training or
backup, whose Pack didn't have a Pack committee and whose Cubmaster never even
had a meeting of den leaders or hinted that there was such a thing as "Program
Helps"(this was how I came in, and now look at me...). Or a parent who never
got told why the two-deep thing is important, or the new volunteer who has no
clue as to what a PLC or MC is. You needed information and support, not
chiding.

In this spirit, I can agree to the tell-it-like-it-is school of common sense.
Which, after all, if it were truly common wouldn't be so dam' unusual. All in
favor, as amended?

YiS
Auntie Beans
ASM T44 Pocasset MA
Cape Cod & Islands Council
Abake MiSaNaKi Lodge #393
NSJ 1997 Nat'l Health & Safety
I useta be an Eagle...
' We used to be a Beaver and a good old Bobwhite too,
But now we've finished Foxing and we don't know what to do,
We're growing Owl and Eagle, and we can Bear no more,
So we're getting out of Gilwell while we can!'
NEI-188
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