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And that is how camps die; ego or ignornance or the combo. Historical records locally show that the success with camps was always volunteer based, and when the volunteers were ignored or told too hard the camp lost critical capabilities that once were "just fixed" by those that knew how, and gave of their time and personal sources. Scouting is supposed to be nonprofit. IF profit is a factor, rather than utility of a basic source with voluteers, you likely will lose the facility or the people. -
You got me. I remember driving my paperwork over to some council exec's house to deliver it, but it wasn't on my birthday. Had to be a day or two before. -
I love where you want to go with this; trust me I do. My troop finally enacted a cell phone policy. I am no longer the A-hole dad telling his scouts to put the phones away or they get locked in the car while everyone else does wtf they want; however, I am not sure if this is a national level issue for a couple of reasons. If national were to introduce a new policy, how would they enforce it? As an example, the new safeguarding youth (not the name, but the whole new process) program is mandated from the bankruptcy and settlement and national is absolutely impotent in the means of enforcing it at the council level let alone unit level. This is a legally enforceable mandate where everyone with a functioning brain agrees it is important and it still can't get enforced. We know that the entire country is a patchwork of (at sometimes) weird laws and judicial rulings. Does national want to weigh in and get forced to navigate all the various laws? For example in my state it is illegal for schools and other organizations to take cell phones away from youth who have medical conditions, educational need, or if they have an IEP at their school of enrollment that states they should have access to a cellular device due to their condition(s). The only reason why my troop has a cell phone policy is because the COR basically came in and said, agree to it or your family hits the bricks. -
1) Exactly, You were lied to. 2) See my original explanation, you have someone off program screwing things up and blaming everyone but themselves. 3) I grew up in an area like what you describe; somehow never had the problems you are straw argumenting on. 4) That is a lot of districts; it is because the DE's are not properly trained to recruit a functioning district committee. The areas that do not have popoulation for a district committee are almost guaranteed to be an area that is too small to be a district. A district is supposed to be based on population and not geography. The warnings do go out at 90, 60, 30, and day of from national. The commissioner corps in my district personally called every single person which led to some spicey responses. Personal opinion, we need to cull the weak leaders right out of the program.
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This would never happen in my council; it would shift the power balance away from a small group of power mongers. EG: A few years ago we had a windstorm come through and knock down hundreds of trees at camp. The camping director of the council was complaining to me about the cost to get 1 campsite backup and running. Me, having experience and professional certification in logging operations offered to come and clean up all of the windfall for free and told the camping director to just pick a weekend for me to roll in and do it at no charge. I got ghosted.
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