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YOWZAA!!! A chance to vent to the National Advancement Committee!!!

 

My words:

 

"Question 6: What do you find frustrating about being a merit badge counselor?"

 

The lack of crosswalk between requirements and textual material in a MB pamphlet.

 

The dryness of a current MB pamphlet. I have my own pamphlets from my youth, they were written to ENCOURAGE you to do things!!!

 

PARENTS COUNSELING THEIR OWN SCOUTS!!! Integrity? Sadly, around here, not when it's their own child!!

 

In-house Eagle required Merit Badges. Troops and Crews should be limited to having no more than 5 Eagle required MBs in their internal counselor list. Force the youth to find a Counselor. Strengthen the Adult Association Method.

 

Counselors who won't support a young man from outside their troop.

 

 

"Question 7: 7. What resources would you like to have that might make being a merit badge counselor less complicated and more enjoyable?"

 

You've taken the first step: Putting BSA requirements online.

 

Incorporate "age and school-grade appropriate" into No-More, No-Less. I've had a tenth grader try to pawn off 6th grade quality work and say he got it done. I had to call in my District Advancement Chairman for backup!!!

 

COMMITMENT to serving all Scouts, not just members of the home Troop/Team/Crew.

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BTW, I just looked at the youth survey. Someone needs to go back and find Pedro, the mailburro. Can you say B...O...R...I...N...G!!!????

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WOW!! That was very liberating taking the survey. My Eagle son and I both did it. We felt so liberated although it may never go anywhere.

 

My biggest problem is like John said......grade/age appropriateness. I have boys who are in 10th grade working like 6th graders, yet, I've had 6th graders trying to do Citizen/World and can't get their limited life experience around it to get it done well.

 

I think some MBs should come with a grade/age requirement....I know I'll get shot for saying that, but I'm so tired of having a boy come to me complaining about not understanding the work. My response is generally to have them wait, but thier SMs usually call and complain about that as well.

 

My other big problems are boys not being organized, boys coming with stuff printed off the internet and not knowing what the heck is even IN what they printed, and plagarizing stuff off the internet or out of a book. (My response to that is always "A Scout is Trustworthy", but again it gets met with a lot of flack.)

 

I had one problem with a boy who wanted to always print from the internet and when he printed off his map of his local area from online, he printed the wrong city/state adn didn't even notice it. When I made him do it over, his mother called and **** ed me out over it. He eventually went to another counselor because I was "too hard on him". Whatever!

 

There needs to be more rigidity in the guidelines and less loopholes.

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