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By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
1 &2. Then why did we have to resubmit records if there was an easy fix? And why does it keep happening every time there is an upgrade? 2. Depending upon your age, internet may not have been around. But this is not a straw argument, this is reality. in rural America. 4. Maybe, maybe not. But I can tell you professional serive is non existant on my area. -
By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
We had something similar almost happen. There was an electric line issue at the camp during an event. One of the Scouters was an electric lineman, and came straight from work to the event, so he had everything needed to fix the problem. He fixed the issue, but a member of the council camping committee was there, had a conniption fit over having someone not approved doing the work. Funny thing was, he worked for the power company that the camp used, and worked there previously when a hurricane hit a few years earlier. -
And that is how camps die; ego or ignornance or the combo. Historical records locally show that the success with camps was always volunteer based, and when the volunteers were ignored or told too hard the camp lost critical capabilities that once were "just fixed" by those that knew how, and gave of their time and personal sources. Scouting is supposed to be nonprofit. IF profit is a factor, rather than utility of a basic source with voluteers, you likely will lose the facility or the people. -
You got me. I remember driving my paperwork over to some council exec's house to deliver it, but it wasn't on my birthday. Had to be a day or two before. -
I love where you want to go with this; trust me I do. My troop finally enacted a cell phone policy. I am no longer the A-hole dad telling his scouts to put the phones away or they get locked in the car while everyone else does wtf they want; however, I am not sure if this is a national level issue for a couple of reasons. If national were to introduce a new policy, how would they enforce it? As an example, the new safeguarding youth (not the name, but the whole new process) program is mandated from the bankruptcy and settlement and national is absolutely impotent in the means of enforcing it at the council level let alone unit level. This is a legally enforceable mandate where everyone with a functioning brain agrees it is important and it still can't get enforced. We know that the entire country is a patchwork of (at sometimes) weird laws and judicial rulings. Does national want to weigh in and get forced to navigate all the various laws? For example in my state it is illegal for schools and other organizations to take cell phones away from youth who have medical conditions, educational need, or if they have an IEP at their school of enrollment that states they should have access to a cellular device due to their condition(s). The only reason why my troop has a cell phone policy is because the COR basically came in and said, agree to it or your family hits the bricks.
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