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  1. Leadership as "Authenticity" 1 2 3 4 15

    By fred8033,
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  2. Very Short Scoutmaster Minutes. 1 2 3 4 6

    By Bob White,
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  3. Are we really helping anyone? 1 2 3 4

    By MattR,
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  4. the most important word... 1 2 3

    By red feather,
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  5. The Secret of Leadership 1 2

    By Sentinel947,
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  6. Gene Cernan 1 2

    By mashmaster,
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  7. Succession Planning and the "Talk/Threat" 1 2

    By CynicalScouter,
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  8. Discussing Monday's attack with scouts 1 2

    By Cambridgeskip,
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  9. Eastern Mysticism 1 2

    By SSScout,
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  10. Like My Momma Used to say... 1 2

    By SSScout,
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  11. Don't Ever, Ever Ring the Bell!

    By LeCastor,
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  12. Share your favorite Scouting success stories or victories here

    By Sentinel947,
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  13. Is that what the Oath means?

    By KoreaScouter,
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  14. Underneath we are all the same

    By SSScout,
    • 13 replies
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  15. SMM about WHY the Scout Law and Oath?

    By ham_solo,
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      How to save a rapidly dying Troop.

      By HashTagScouts · Posted

      In the two years of fumbling it took us to get enough girls to start a girl troop, we lost five kids (two sibling pairs + 1 friend of of one of the families) from out of our own pack to a neighboring town because they had a functioning linked boy troop and girl troop. We managed to get our stuff together to charter a girl troop with minimum #s that next year, but by year's end one aged out and one of our female adults moved. We were down to four girls going into 2024 and knew one would age out over the summer, so the mixed gender pilot was the saving grace for 2025. Very doubtful that BSA is going to drop that, and would bet the farm that by 2026 it is just one of the membership options that any unit can use. 
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    • Tron
      How to save a rapidly dying Troop.

      By Tron · Posted

      I can add that in my area a couple of hold out packs decided that they wanted to be boy only. A couple of packs tried to do single gender dens. In both scenarios everyone watched as those units shrank, and shrank, and shrank while the family packs maintained or grew. The last couple of hold out packs are basically cookie cutter of each other now, 5-6 scouts with 5 adults; everyone in the district knows that those packs are folding when a member of the Key 3 crosses over with their AOL.  My buddies pack tried to stay boy only until they got down under 10 scouts; they went to district and some of us peer leaders at other units for help and the shock was insane. I had to tell my buddy that I was not wasting my time trying to help him recruit when he could easily pick up another 5-10 scouts by just letting the sisters that were tagging along to meetings and participating join the pack. The COR of that pack, his head, it was deep raspberry with rage, I thought he was going to burst a blood vessel in both of his eyes; he really didn't like me telling him to his face that he was killing his pack by being sexist. 
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      Youth Protection Question

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