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By HashTagScouts · Posted
I think more than one thing is being conflated. The OA maintains a National Committee (National Order of the Arrow Committee | Order of the Arrow, Scouting America). There are four youth that serve on that committee- the National Chief/Vice Chief and the two Region Chiefs. Often, meetings of the committee occur at events where section chiefs are in attendance and may sit in, but they are not voting members. There has been noticeable change in Lodge Adviser/Associate Lodge Adviser membership in the ten years I was involved as an adult, but yes, historically those roles were places that individuals became set (and stayed for life in some cases). Many individuals from other lodges I interacted with were great people/mentors/Scouters, but there were some that hadn't been in unit-level positions in 2+ decades, and you had to question some of their comments as to whether they had lost a bit of the connection to what unit-level Scouting is/should be. -
On one hand Scouting America is being demonized while actually doing better than the general population. On the other hand the goal is zero incidents. Some low hanging fruit to improve the process and strive towards zero incidents would be automated revocation of membership if safety based training ever expires. If Scouting America wants credit for doing better it's going to have to do things like auto revoke adult registration for failure to gain and maintain training. Youth protection/safeguarding expires? Membership should get auto dropped before the next business day begins. Hazardous weather expires? Same thing. You're registered as an adult leader for over 90 days and not position trained, guess what, your membership should be auto dropped. Safeguarding is the main training mandate that has to be absolutely 100% enforced; however, enforcing all of the other training requirements sets the tone of expectations. Until Scouting America gets serious I don't think it gets any credit regardless of being statistically better than everyone else. -
I am not sure what you're trying to illude to here? By quoting both posts are you trying to say youth should lead local lodges AND the national BOD?
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By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
Remember, at one point in the 1980-2000s, and possibly a little earlier, Explorers, and Venturers until sometime after 2002, could wear their rank patch until they were 21. First two scout camps I worked at had a lot of folks wearing the rank patch on their green Exploring shirts. One of my coworkers with national supply loved modeling his Venturing uniform, when official pants and shorts came out in 2000/2001, because he could still wear the rank patch with it. He had the knot on his tan shirt. -
By BetterWithCheddar · Posted
The only time I can see where this is borderline acceptable is when it's a "throwback" uniform (unaltered from their youth). My favorite local council camp holds a "retro night" during the summer camp season and it's fun to see all of the old gear come out at once.
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