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  14. Women and siblings on campouts 1 2 3 4

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  • LATEST POSTS

    • Armymutt
      Delaying BOR because...committee meeting for another troop and a holiday?

      By Armymutt · Posted

      Trying to light a spark, not take over.  The problem is, the CC and the SM are married and the former SPL, now ASPL, is their son.  There's a lot of undue command influence, as we would call it in the Army.  I asked the SPL why we were having this drug talk again and was told "my mom said we had to have one".  This summer, the SM said he was done at the end of the year.  I volunteered for the job and he said he was staying on for another year.  I watched this troop for a couple of years before we joined.  They were very active - camping at least monthly.  Things changed when the original SM left.  Now we aren't even going camping in December as a troop - just a game day.  
    • DuctTape
      Troops not meeting the week of Thanksgiving and over Christmas break? This is a thing now?

      By DuctTape · Posted

      I would rather a troop not have a "meeting" if they are doing a different activity that week. Meetings are there to support the program; most of the program exists (or should) outside of those meetings. IMO Scouting has dropped off b/c there is too much focus on the meetings, and classroom stuff and not enough in the out of outdoors. When scouting is too much like school with some weekend field-trips then it isn't scouting. Retention and engagement metrics in an adult-led, classroom style program is bad data.
    • InquisitiveScouter
      CORs : change

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      Concur with your assessment.  My extended guess... National wants to move more rapidly with consolidation of councils, and this will prepare the way...
    • Tron
      Delaying BOR because...committee meeting for another troop and a holiday?

      By Tron · Posted

      So with your free time, and your buddies free time, it sounds like the perfect seed to start a takeover of the troop. 
    • Tron
      CORs : change

      By Tron · Posted

      Every time I have seen a structured removal of voting ability or removal of input ability it was caused by the ruling bodies desire to remove or reduce dissent to a pending action. I've seen this in other non-profits and in local governments. This type of action always preceded a controversial policy change.  I wonder if this is the fallout of the Nassau and Norfolk councils voting to not merge and then being forced to after all of Long Island scouting went bankrupt? There are a lot of councils just digging in and refusing to be part of the team right now. Is this a mechanism to remove the dissent at the various localish levels? 
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