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On one hand Scouting America is being demonized while actually doing better than the general population. On the other hand the goal is zero incidents. Some low hanging fruit to improve the process and strive towards zero incidents would be automated revocation of membership if safety based training ever expires. If Scouting America wants credit for doing better it's going to have to do things like auto revoke adult registration for failure to gain and maintain training. Youth protection/safeguarding expires? Membership should get auto dropped before the next business day begins. Hazardous weather expires? Same thing. You're registered as an adult leader for over 90 days and not position trained, guess what, your membership should be auto dropped. Safeguarding is the main training mandate that has to be absolutely 100% enforced; however, enforcing all of the other training requirements sets the tone of expectations. Until Scouting America gets serious I don't think it gets any credit regardless of being statistically better than everyone else. -
I am not sure what you're trying to illude to here? By quoting both posts are you trying to say youth should lead local lodges AND the national BOD?
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By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
Remember, at one point in the 1980-2000s, and possibly a little earlier, Explorers, and Venturers until sometime after 2002, could wear their rank patch until they were 21. First two scout camps I worked at had a lot of folks wearing the rank patch on their green Exploring shirts. One of my coworkers with national supply loved modeling his Venturing uniform, when official pants and shorts came out in 2000/2001, because he could still wear the rank patch with it. He had the knot on his tan shirt. -
By BetterWithCheddar · Posted
The only time I can see where this is borderline acceptable is when it's a "throwback" uniform (unaltered from their youth). My favorite local council camp holds a "retro night" during the summer camp season and it's fun to see all of the old gear come out at once. -
Summer camp will be fun next month, apparently the camp director wears a rank patch. I'm going to have to try really hard to not visibly roll my eyes. 🙄
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