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All about planning and going to Summer Camp

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  1. Filling Camp Staff Positions

    By fotoscout,
    • 5 replies
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  2. Older Scout Summer Camp Attendance 1 2

    By ScouterPaul,
    • 25 replies
    • 5k views

  3. BSA Lifeguard

    By aquaman,
    • 9 replies
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  4. Off We Go

    By evmori,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.6k views

  5. It's Camp Time!

    By eagle90,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views

  6. SC Advancement, Has the Campfire Gone Out?, and Oh, The Pain!...

    By EagleInKY,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views

  7. Summer Camp Summary (WARNING--LONG)

    By hops_scout,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.8k views

  8. New to Camp Staff

    By BSAT17SPL,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views

  9. Vesper Service

    By evmori,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views

  10. The Passage Of Time

    By Eamonn,
    • 1 reply
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  11. Medications 1 2

    By Owl62,
    • 26 replies
    • 4.7k views

  12. A Summer Camp Prayer

    By scouter659,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views

  13. Help with Day Camp--Pirates!

    By Surfinwahine,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.1k views

  14. What did he forget? 1 2

    By scoutmom,
    • 28 replies
    • 4.5k views

  15. Summer Camp Staff Inspection

    By Eamonn,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views

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    • Tron
      Here's a new one - parent wants son to go from Scout to Eagle by Christmas.

      By Tron · Posted

      Never seen or heard of this before. I would ask her where she got the idea for recording videos of him performing tasks and see where the leads.
    • HashTagScouts
      Here's a new one - parent wants son to go from Scout to Eagle by Christmas.

      By HashTagScouts · Posted

      I'd start by referring her to read the rank requirements, pointing out: 30 days (minimum) required to earn Tenderfoot due to the fitness requirement,  4 weeks (minimum) after earning Tenderfoot to earn Second Class (fitness requirement), 4 weeks (minimum) after earning Second Class to earn First Class (fitness requirement). I appreciate the kids enthusiasm, but it is a marathon and not a sprint. To each unit their own, but I wouldn't accept the youth doing videos for rank requirements. If the youth wanted to come to a troop meeting and ask the SPL if there is time for someone to test him on requirement X if time allows, that is at the SPL discretion. 
    • Armymutt
      Here's a new one - parent wants son to go from Scout to Eagle by Christmas.

      By Armymutt · Posted

      New kid showed up last week.  Went camping with us this past weekend.  Can't seem to figure out the patrol method - kept coming to the adults for everything.  Mom thinks he can earn Eagle by Christmas.  Has him submitting videos for all sorts of requirements.  In one, he is obviously reading off a cue card.  In another, he ties a square knot instead of a sheet bend.  I told the acting SM that I'm not comfortable accepting these as an appropriate level of skill to sign off the requirement.  He agrees that it is strange.  Has anyone encountered this sort of thing?  It's an amazing hyper focus on rank advancement over actually being a Scout.  I push my son to learn the material so he can advance, but this is something else.  
    • TheScouterDude
      Flag burning is now illegal? Sorta maybe?

      By TheScouterDude · Posted

      Here's an examination of the case regarding Israeli flags: False claims about burning Israeli flags, based on ToI report, reach Congress The underlying case involves someone who was wearing an Israeli flag being briefly choked when someone tanked on the flag from behind. The case was not about flag burning or damaging a flag; it was about whether the physical assault on a person might be construed as discrimination based in part on the flag used as part of the assault.
    • Tron
      Flag burning is now illegal? Sorta maybe?

      By Tron · Posted

      Well it's not anymore according the DC Circuit Court. That decision has created a space for our government to force a revisit to the SCOTUS decision to say burning the US flag is protected. When this eventually winds it's way back to SCOTUS I hope they thrown out Texas Vs Johnson.
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