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By HashTagScouts · Posted
When programming is working as it should, this is one element that is correct to evaluate the health of the unit and make SM aware of blind spots. If younger youth are getting pencil-whipped through requirements. and older youth who should be teaching are not, the unit is not healthy. -
By Eagle94-A1 · Posted
Trust me, National did indeed give it to him and stated "you do not penalize the Scout for the mistakes of adults" in their letter giving him Eagle. And the entire process was followed to the letter at the time, i.e. denial at EBOR, letting stating reasons for it and how to remedy the situation, appeal to council advancement committee which endorsed the district's denial, and appeal to national. The entire district advancement committee resigned en masse over the issue writing in the letter that ( paraphrasing) if national wants to overrule the local board of review that reviewed the candidate, then they should start conducting them instead. The DE was furious with national's decision. Not only did it cause the committee, which he spent over 9 months recruiting for, to resign, he new the Scout, his family, and the unit the family ran, and agreed with the local EBOR decision. And the Scout had plenty of time to actually earn it: he was 13 or 14 when he got it. Not knowing who he was, I ran into him wearing his MB sash and Eagle patch and medal ( don't ask why, I don't know) to Den Chief training. I tried to strike up a conversation with him, using the MBs he wore to ask a few questions. Complete silence and "deer in the headlights" look as I asked him some questions, especially since I was new to the area, and some of the MBs he wore I counseled. After he left, the DE told me who he was, and I stated, "I understand why they (local EBOR) said he didn't earn it." -
God help him if he gets someone like my district advancement chair or the past previous. A board of review depends on the rank. For Scout - 1st Class my goal is 15min or less and focused on the scout experience and keying up on the best and worst experience of the scout on those rank journeys; I generally want myself and fellow board members to ask no more than 3 questions each. Star and Life I start asking multiple questions on the same topics, the boards start getting longer, 30-45min. I've sat on many EBORS over the year, they go long, too long, 2 hours or so, always a 6 person panel. National will not just give it to him. In my time we have only failed one person and national had no mercy for them or the troop. This is not the point of the BOR, especially not at the earlier ranks. These earlier ranks are gauging the scout experience, the health of the unit, blindspots to take back to the scoutmaster corps. Correct. -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
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By HashTagScouts · Posted
Especially for Scouts on the younger end, you don't want a BOR to crush their spirit, so making the knots a game just makes it light-hearted. Just encourage them to keep trying later on- "that's OK [Sam], I get my fingers twisted sometimes too. But I'll do this every know and then to challenge myself". Again, the intent of BOR is not re-test and search for reason to not pass them- every BOR I saw as means to evaluate how we were doing as a program for discussion to the SM. Hopefully the SM can work that feedback into discussion with the SPL and PLC- "I think it would be good if next month we find an activity to include in a troop meeting to practice knots".
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