Re: Blue Cards & Merit Badges
Alan Houser (troop24@EMF.NET)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:22:15 -0800
Pepsi12pak <wchapel@INNW.NET> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>Have a quick question concerning blue cards and merit badges. If this has
>been on the list recently, sorry, I must have missed it while changing
>Internet providers.
> [snip]
>... To date she has not handed any blue cards over for any
>of the boys (completed or otherwise). She has let it known that the boys
>need to see their councilors of the merit badges. (Sounds great -IF- you
>really knew who the councilor was, as most of these were started at a
>makeshift summer camp she pulled together, or as troop activities, some I
>attended but don't even know who was to sign off blue cards.
>So, do we need any or some of the cards?
>-OR_
>Do we pretend the boys work for last year never happened and have them
>start all over?
>Thanks in advance for the advice,
>Sharon Brooks <wchapel@innw.net>
First thing I would do is check with your council to see if the advancement
reports had been turned in. If so, the council registrar should be able
to produce a list of the merit badges your son has been reported as having
earned, with the dates. That would be adequate documentation that the
merit badges were indeed earned.
If the council doesn't have the list, it means that the advancement reports
were never turned in, and the Scoutmaster and/or advancement chair really
blew it. If you are unable to recontact the merit badge counselors, there
may be no recourse except doing the merit badges again. Again, the
Scoutmaster should know who the counselors were, since she had the
responsibility of assigning them. But if your son had mastered the skills
once, I would expect there would be no problem in demonstrating them again.
Best of luck!
YiS,
Alan R. Houser ** troop24@emf.net
** Scoutmaster, Troop 24, Berkeley, California **
** Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner, Herms District **
** WWW page ** http://www.emf.net/~troop24/t24.html **
