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Scouting ranks, merit bades, and the advancement programs
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By UKScouterInCA · Posted
Our Troop has earned the National Outdoor Challenge Unit Award for the last few years (https://www.scouting.org/awards/awards-central/national-outdoor-challenge/). The PDF is still available but it has gone from the awards website https://www.scouting.org/awards/awards-central/ The National Outdoor Challenge Unit Award is a requirement for the Scoutmasters Key Award https://www.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Scoutmaster-Key-23.pdf which is still there. Anyone know if the award is truly retired or someone just messed up on the awards central website? -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Agreed. Some hold this issue as black and white. I respect their position. I hold it as grey, and I am comfortable operating in "my" grey area on this one. Until IRS makes a definitive ruling (and council stops giving us checks for Scouts), that is 😜 -
I know of at least 3 scouts in my area that have potentially thousands of dollars in their scout accounts, I know of 1 scout that for sure has over 10k. I look at these scout account discussions more along the lines of, when is the IRS going smack a unit, not if. When you look into all of the case law that has been discussed, the public positions, etc ... it's all about the IRS doesn't want the media black eye unless they can really get something bigger than a handful of dollars of abuse. -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Yes. Our unit does our own fundraiser. We also advertise to our Scouts that they can participate in the council popcorn fundraiser with online sales. For those that participate, at the end of the fundraiser, the council gives us a check, with a list of the Scouts participating and how much is allocated to each Scout. We deposit it in the unit fund and credit their Scout accounts in Scoutbook. We have a Scout who did this for his first two years with us. He has not had to pay a single cent for any Scout-related costs, and has plenty of coin left to take him through his next few years. He has learned the value of getting out there and earning his way. And he fully understands that any fundraised money left over when he leaves the Troop goes to the general Troop fund, or is disbursed, as he wishes, to Scouts in the Troop who might need a little assistance. -
Another example of some individuals looking for problems that really are not there. Unless some individual scout ended up with an account from popcorn under his name in big dollars, it would never even float a butterfly. Use commons sense, and be even handed with all youth and do not favor one over another, meaning solid rules in place that apply to all. We finally went to the unit just paying for as much as possible directly and not trying to account for individuals directly.
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