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By johnsch322 · Posted
In that vein of thought, please stop sugar coating BSA's past and blatant coverups. -
By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
Not always. I have seen Scouters go through all the training, yet still want to do things their way because 'Scouting needs to change with the times." Others just go through the motions, and then focus on their child. When you try to explain things, and mentor them, you are accused of "mansplaining," "being a misogynist," or "you don't know my son." -
By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
Not necessarily. I gotta be in the bottom 3 due to size. I could be wrong though. We are running the program as it should be run. Biggest challenge is no feeder pack, and have not had one for approximately 12 years. We got most of our scouts from existing ones who were dissatisfied with their troops. A few others who were never in Cubs, but had friends having fun with the troop was the other source. As the council stopped recruiting, packs have dwindled and died. Troops take a little longer since it is a 7 year program, and not a 4.5, now 5.5 year, program like Cubs. The Strongest troop does things their own way, and are successful because they are extremely protective of their pack. Leadership is shared, and they get fussy if other Scouts even talk to theirs. -
I get that, but sometimes the only way they learn is through doing. -
Basically from what I have seen and pieced together a council needs to be about 15000 scouts to be financially viable. I think the issue really is that there are far too many councils, national knows it, talks about it, had a report recommending mergers and consolidations. Everyone is resistant to it. The professionals are resistant to losing their jobs (understandable but doesn't trump saving the program and organization). The volunteers don't want change and far too many don't understand 4 season programming. As an organization and movement we have to grow past an 8 week utilization period for our camps, and our camps need to look at the hotel and for profit camping industry for appropriate usage levels; we have too many properties competing for summer camp dollars and as an organization we don't have any idea on how to run the camps the remaining 44 weeks of the year. I think I met this guy you talk about earlier in the year when the metrics rolled out. Everything about the metrics makes sense except the fact that units are not being forced to comply with data entry, and units still think they can just "not engage" with district or council. In my neck of the woods I would cull the bottom 3 troops every year for a couple years (not packs, I would give them more freedom to figure it out), but I would totally cull the bottom 3 troops for sure. 2-3 years of culling the S-heads who are not running the program and things would change so much for the better.
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