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Yeah, that's why I'm thinking I joined as a Wolf in third grade (8 yrs old) and then that photo was "printed: out three years later in 1972 when I was actually 11 yrs old. -
What another pile of boulderdash that some employee/ bean counter of BSA has developed to justify their own job. It wasn't that long ago that every unit in a council was required to re charger on the same date. Along with the re charter came re registration and everything that goes along with that. I can just hear it now, " we can't go because Mr. X, Mr. Y, and Mr. Z have expired registrations!" Increasing fees for volunteers and kids is a GRAND way to boost membership since opening the door to girls and the LGBTQ community didn't work. In a few years the organization known as the Boy Scouts of America will be unrecognizable. -
I love to discuss things with the likes of backpacker, I always gain wisdom and insight to so many things. Y'all can argue and say " you are wrong" but here's a little tidbit that may shed some light on this. Law Enforcement Explorer's, and there is such a thing even if they're they are in Exploring, have a recognition device for Eagle Scouts and several years ago Exploring authorized that same device for the Girl Scout Gold Award. As far as BSA goes it really doesn't matter because uniforms are only optional and suggested so I guess the patches that one puts on their shirt doesn't really matter either.
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No, its has always been segments to get to the Medal. So nothing has changed but the availability of the medal. -
Okay, so it sounds like they changed the award. It went from all or nothing with a medal to optional parts with patches and segments. If you get all the segments now how far off is that from the medal of old times? My guess is very few people were doing the entire set, kind of like that super duper environmental award you could get (with something like 3 or 5 projects). Nobody was completing it so it was dropped. I tried getting some scouts interested and that was a big fail. Scouts get eagle because their parents harp on it. More of that is not interesting to the scouts. They do the outdoor activities because it's there and they're doing it with their friends. It's not to get a medal. I've seen scouts not even bother with filling out the paperwork for the 50 miler award. I'm okay with that. They already got the memories from the trip. That's all that's really important.
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