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- Delaying BOR because...committee meeting for another troop and a holiday?
  
  By InquisitiveScouter · Posted Just now
  
  These days, it is mostly just a formality. Back in the day, you were tested on a few skills at a BoR. Nowadays, that is a no go. Now, it is more of a job performance review for the SM corps, by proxy through the Scouts' eyes. Helps the Committee see that the program is being delivered rightly to the Scouts. But, if the committee doesn't know the program... well... Even Eagle Boards of Review are mostly a formality, too. In that, I would agree they are primarily "hoops" to jump through.
- Unit Leader conference to start MB
  
  By Armymutt · Posted 14 minutes ago
  
  Getting the kids, well parents, to attend the PLC is the tough one. I'm trying to shape things more and more. It's gotta be a force more like erosion than a hurricane. Very difficult for a guy who thrives on rapidly changing environments.
- Delaying BOR because...committee meeting for another troop and a holiday?
  
  By Armymutt · Posted 18 minutes ago
  
  We never had a BOR, other than for Eagle, in any of the three troops I was a member. One was in IL, the others in England. I don't even recall a SM conference. We just completed the ranks and received the badge and card. These seem like artificial barriers that are unnecessary.
- Delaying BOR because...committee meeting for another troop and a holiday?
  
  By fred8033 · Posted 1 hour ago
  
  Absolutely 100%. AND, it's not really "reviewing". A BOR is really celebrating the scout's progress and encouraging their involvement. It's a really bad bad bad message to encourage MBs and getting requirements done and then delaying the scout's BOR. In a way, it's a game. The scout should drive and be accountable for his own progress. If the scout is held up by not being able to get a SMC or BOR, that breeds a jaded attitude.
- Scouting Pet Peeve?
  
  By FireStone · Posted 5 hours ago
  
  Adults wearing Eagle rank patches. Not the square knot, the oval. And I'd personally let it slide for an 18 or 19-year-old, but I'm seeing too many 50-something men wearing an oval Eagle rank patch.
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Scouting is a game… not School - team building

Scouting for Food and Chartered Organization

Another tragic situation

When is it apropriate... 1 2 3

Operation Preparedness 1 2

Scout Sunday (Feb 3) / Scout Sabbath (Feb 9)

And now a word from the Dept. of the Obvious . . .

Scouting as School...or a Game 1 2 3

Learning from the Past 1 2 3 4

Two Changes: How would you give input? 1 2

How much should Faith inform Scouting? 1 2 3

On the brink of reviving history..(see inside for better explanation)

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