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Like when I tried to reiterate that BSA policy (then) was single gender units, not full co-ed. They responded, "we just do what works best for us."...I wondered what else "worked best"...ignoring YP policy...G2SS...safety afloat? No wonder the BSA gets sued. -
Guess I have heard "mansplaining" before, but it struck me this time and made me smile. I suppose there is a related term, "womansplaining", though not sure that is possible. 😃 -
Cooperative uses of propeties by youth serving groups, and family serving entities should be a no brainer. Looking at the history of BSA, it is hard to imaging what may have evolved WITHOUT the YMCA and the involvement of community groups. We now have NO camps, yet the GS camp sits empty much of the year, and they choose to NOT make it easily used by Scouting America. It seems logical to me, but what do I know, that all of these groups should be designing cooperative involvements, not just for camping on owned properties that are still viable, but also for programming. The often over used "it takes a family" seems to fit here. Early towns survived by cooperative methods. While religions have slipped to the background in modern society, the silent familial opportunities still fill a huge hole in betterment of society. Another otion might be for the large corporated outdoor and sports corporations enter into the saving of camps still there, but slipping, and develop coordinated events with updated facilities, open not ALL youth serving groups, perhaps on the traditional Summer Camp model, but also in special camps to support the environment and to introduce the trades and so on. So many options that go untried for whatever excuse, while billions of dollars are wasted on foolishness and destruction of our world.
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Councils - Absolutely too many councils, too much overhead. As long as they keep raising money on the nostalgic memory of BSA, they will survive I guess Properties - My understanding is (2024 I believe) for summer, if you took all the BSA properties, totaled up all the available slots in the camp (for example a camp is open 5 weeks and capacity is 250 per week, available slots are 1,250), the overall usage was maybe 30%. That means there is a lot of unused capacity. Data shows top 3 property attendance Philmont Seabase Woodruff (Blairsville, GA) SA (formerly BSA) clearly needs to resize and figure out how to efficiently deliver program, how far will units travel, how many weeks can they operate, what can they do to fully utilize the property. If one were to combine councils the properties could be passed to other groups (State / County / City parks for example) and the maintenance and sunk costs could be eliminated. -
By johnsch322 · Posted
In that vein of thought, please stop sugar coating BSA's past and blatant coverups.
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