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It all depends on how the parent "brought forward" concerns. Even if BSA had a retaliation rule, it might not apply to this situation. I am a teacher. My school has a retaliation policy. This policy would protect me if I were to make a statement to child protective services. It would not protect me if I were to start bad mouthing my school at PTA meetings, sporting events, and parent/teacher conferences. Retaliation policies do not give me free reign to shoot off my mouth whenever and wherever I please. People have different interpretations of the term corporal punishment. Some would apply it only to hitting kids. Others would include physical exercise punishments like doing pushups or running laps. I'm not sure what this parent thinks is corporal punishment. -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
Speaking of protecting brand identity, I wonder if a Girl Scout or the GSUSA obtained permission to rebrand Somoas to Momoas from Jason Momoa, Aquaman, DC, Warner Brothers, ... https://www.today.com/food/girl-scout-creates-jason-momoa-themed-samoa-cookies-t149052 -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
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By PARENTinSCOUT · Posted
I discovered this surprising fact after raising a complaint to the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council in 2017 about my troop leader explicitly calling out a parent who brought forward concerns that children were stressed and one suicidal in part due to punitive scouting practices. The leader claimed the parent was spreading false rumors and threatened consequences (all documented in an email) when in fact, a scout did have suicidal thought and implicated the stress to problematic scouting practices which involved hazing, corporal punishment and inappropriate manipulation of advancement procedures. The Council swiftly stopped the hazing, corporal punishment and inappropriate advancement procedures, but left the retaliation incident untouched. Their reason stated was this is a Charter Organization's matter and not of the Council's. I later learned from an Area Executive that BSA in fact did not have a policy expressly prohibited retaliation. There was a PRESUMPTION that retaliation is wrong and should not be allowed, but there is to language to set it as a community standard. This leader vowed to change this lack of policy language at BSA level, but he retired. Having taken the latest Youth Protection Policy training last year, I still did not see any mentioning of retaliation as wrong or prohibited. This lack of policy against retaliation constitutes a fatal flaw in Youth Protection Policy. The success of YPP depends on a culture of openness about youth endangerment, therefore, the ban of retaliation must be explicit as a community standard. That troop (now a former troop) served an immigrant community, which is one of the growth segment of the BSA. Immigrants, especially, by virtue of their acculturation needs, need to know clearly what is allowed and not allowed so they can participate and build a scouting culture according to prevailing standards. Secondly, no serious effort to prevent child abuse can ever happen without clear and convincing deterrent against inappropriate retaliation. Consequences for breaking the rule should be spelled out. I was on the verge of putting a petition on Change.org to promote this change in policy. But since I find this forum, I hope some good will come of it, with your interest and help, so scouting can be what it should be, a safe and supportive place for all children. Please help!!! -
We took our kids out of school to attend a wedding in Rapid City. Son #1 was assigned a lot of journaling. He had a lot to write about. We took a drive to the Badlands one day.
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