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      By qwazse · Posted

      Most all you all did not look like this (at the time) young Syrian, and I joined and stayed. This speaks to the identity game that National thinks minority parents are playing. Maybe some are, but if so they ain’t joining on account of some kids matching face on a poster. I’m looking forward to see what grandson #1 decides this year.
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      If it REALLY matters to those cities that all the troops in the council have the most populous city on their sleeve, then they can rally boards to form their own councils with vibrant troops. If your city doesn’t care to vie for its name on your sleeve (as a district within the council or its own council), then it’s a point for the rival municipality. Tell your scouts that their hood just doesn’t love them enough to care. Maybe one day they can change that. It might even be a platform on which they could run for local office. Crush doublespeak. Grow.
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      I wouldn't waste my time on that clickbait nonsense. "Facts", he claims. Yeah right. 🙄
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      Quite true but I think the source of the problem is that most units dont have leaders capable of giving up control so the other leaders revert to just getting what the minimum done and leaving. I was asked recently to help on a patrol outing at my troop. The key concern is that the leader was given a green light to do whatever he wants to help his sons patrol develop; however, he cant use troop gear so he came to me for help since my personal gear closet is full. The key 3 dont want the backlash of saying no so them and the adult quartermaster have created an equipment scheme that stiffles any activities outside of their personal plan [planned] around their scouts.
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      These two ideas go hand in hand.  If you join a program only for what you get out of it, you are much less likely to give to the program.  And, unless that attitude changes for adults (we kind of expect it for youth, don't we?), you will see the program wither. For example, so few adults in our area are willing to give up their second (or third) vacation of the year to take kids to the woods for a week.  And when they do, they expect.... wait for it... a vacation! Same holds true for weekend camping.  We have great difficulty in implementing the Patrol Method, in that patrols sometimes want to do their own activity over a weekend, but we just cannot get the adults required for two-deep to cover the number of patrols we have out doing things.  Due to lack of adult volunteers, we often have to force them back together for a quasi-troop event. If we (collectively) are unable to deliver the promises of adventure that we have made, they leave, and rightfully so. Adventure = retention
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