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  1. history of senior patrol leader

    By asm206,
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  2. Scouting Movement in Michigan

    By CharMer,
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  3. "Follow Me Boys" on DVD

    By KoreaScouter,
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  4. Scouting in Illinois - prior to the creation of a "council"

    By LauraT7,
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  5. Moths (or Monadnock Moths)

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  6. New National Scouting Museum

    By PETAL_MS_SCOUTER,
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  7. Troop #1260

    By findline,
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  8. Sea Scouts of Ferragudo, Portugal.

    By lawsey00,
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  9. Great site about Baden Powell

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  10. Early Girl Scout requirements

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  11. History of the Troop Flag

    By Stevenengr,
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  12. Some Girl Scout history

    By sctmom,
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  13. Information on Boy Rangers

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  14. 1st aid meets- midwest region

    By hskydg,
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  15. 1st aid skill awards: remember them?

    By hskydg,
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  • LATEST POSTS

    • AwakeEnergyScouter
      SM and CC seem full speed ahead to promote incompetent Scout

      By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted

      @Armymutt To answer your question directly, my personal NSHO is that if it was a requirement for a previous rank you still need to know it going forward. Other the intuitive sense that this should be so when it comes to skills, if scouts could forget how to pitch a tent, knots, cook at camp, pack a pack, etc it would make high adventure dangerous. The whole enterprise requires building and adding skills to the ones you've already got. It's like math, you never get to forget the commutative property or multiplication tables just because you're more "advanced". Part of "more advanced" is having the basics completely down.
    • InquisitiveScouter
      SM and CC seem full speed ahead to promote incompetent Scout

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      It is easy to lie, cheat, and steal your way to Eagle Scout... I have seen many a "Paper Eagle Scout" over the years.  It has literally become akin to "pay your fee, get your degree."  If you keep your membership up, attend a few summer camps where you sit around a picnic table and listen to a 15 year old talk about a merit badge, and have your parents do your project, you, too, can be given an Eagle Scout rank patch. When these come to me for assistance, I hold to the requirements.  Nothing more, and nothing less.  I do not sign requirements if I believe the Scout has not done them as written, and have had some parents be quite upset with me when I refuse to participate in helping them maintain the facade.  They have always found someone else with, let's say, a different standard of integrity, who will sign off stuff...   My stance is always that "I am only responsible for my own actions."  
    • Eagle94-A1
      SM and CC seem full speed ahead to promote incompetent Scout

      By Eagle94-A1 · Posted

      Forgot to add, an entire district advancement committee, which denied the Scout his Eagle and gave him a plan to earn it properly, resigned in protest over National's decision to give it to him.
    • Eagle94-A1
      SM and CC seem full speed ahead to promote incompetent Scout

      By Eagle94-A1 · Posted

      I can tell you it is extremely disheartening to other Scouts, especially special needs Scouts who are busting butt to meet requirements, to see someone who is unable to do basic skills, i.e. stuffing a sleeping bag, setting up a tent, etc,  wearing a Life Rank on their pocket. The folded troop's SM "don't understand the importance of camping." And whether the Scout is telling me just what he remembers the SM saying, or the SM actually abridging requirements,  but He says that SM told him all he needed to do foir XYZ MBs were one of the requirements. Family is pushing for Eagle and family is getting frustrated that we are showing requirements and giving workbooks. As for the Eagle Board, there is not much they can do. National will grant it and say something along the lines of "you do not penalize the Scout for the mistakes of the adult." 
    • Armymutt
      SM and CC seem full speed ahead to promote incompetent Scout

      By Armymutt · Posted

      One of the questions that comes to mind is, does a Scout have to know the Law and Oath after achieving the rank of Scout?  It's no longer a requirement for advancement.  We all take it for granted that a Scout would know the two things we say at the beginning of every meeting, but is it a requirement?  I suspect they are not doing BORS correctly.  My wife is a committee member, soon to be the Advancement Chair.  She said they don't have a discussion with the Scout not present.  Another problem is, they try to cram all the BORs into one hour.  Last night we had 4 for Tenderfoot and 1 for Second Class.  
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