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Be careful. We had a SPL pushed by his dad to emphasize mixed patrols and the need to reorganize all the patrols because that's how the dad experienced it when he was a scout. The reorganization caused issues with our more senior scouts that were there to be with their friends ... and especially those that owned the identity of their patrol. A few dropped. More just hung with their original patrol mates as those were their friends and who shared their scouting time. That damaged the new patrols. It took a few years to absorb the patrol change as those older scouts had to age out. If I had to do it over, I'd roll the change in slowly over a few years as new scouts join. Ask for volunteer older scouts who are interested in helping for the new mixed age patrols. Ask the existing patrols to see who is interested in accepting younger new scouts. ... Let the scouts organize themselves. ... If some scouts want to keep their existing patrols, let them keep their patrols. ... I feel strongly about this as patrols belong to the scouts in those patrols and NOT the troop, NOT the SPL and NOT the adults. Also recognize that the next leader a few years from now may have a different opinion and want to change it again ... such as myself. IMHO, focus on the adventure and getting the scouts outside. The learning and adventure will come from that. I don't know your troop's situation, but be sensitive to the scouts in the troop as it can -
Well, this is very cool. Our experience with similar situations is that leadership will struggle for a bit until they get their feet under them, which is OK because we humans learn better in our struggles. But, you might team up with your Eagle and monitor the patrols to see if an ad-hoc training session might help in an area where the patrols are struggling. I found that a 15 minute training moment at the PLC meeting can often be an AH HA moment for PLs. After reading your post, I smiled at the memories, and I remember why I love this scouting stuff. Barry -
Interesting turn of events tonight. Our lone Eagle Scout who is actually actively showing up AND participating came up to myself and the acting SM and presented his thoughts on the troop. He said that he would dissolve the patrols as they are right now and reform them, integrating Scouts of all ages. He sees that what we have isn't working because there is no one in the patrol to teach the younger Scouts anything. As he was talking, I started laughing internally. I pulled up a text thread where I shared an image from the 1941 Handbook for Scoutmasters that described how to do exactly what he proposed. I think by our next elections in October, the troop will have a different look and feel. My plan is to use the older Scouts who are not in PL roles as Troop Guides, responsible for helping the PLs ensure their Scouts are advancing and gaining the Scout skills they need to be able to act independently, within the G2SS. Hopefully, that will motivate them to start leveraging the technology they have available to hold patrol planning meetings outside of troop meetings and reduce the amount of planning taking place at troop meetings. -
By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
Hopefully the donors, or their trustees/descendants, will not sign over deeds outright. We had that happen, and the camp got sold. And not a thing we could do about it to stop the sale.
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