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It's a massive loss of momentum. In two weeks, I can completely switch my focus to something else because the signal I'm receiving is that Scouting isn't important enough to meet every week. It's like skipping a workout for two weeks. Very hard to get going again. I don't see how national is getting any extra money from regular troop meetings. -
I would be supportive of this. Maybe not 4x a month, but definitely a Scouting event every other weekend. I got scolded by the COR because of adult burnout. If a fully retired "Opa" and I want to volunteer to take kids camping, I don't think it should be a problem. I'm pretty good at saying "No". When it's honey bee season, there will be a lot less side quests from me. She also thinks that the Scouts will want participation credit for those campouts as leadership positions rather than the official troop campouts. So much legalese is killing Scouts. Personally, I'd say that if a youth in a POR doesn't want to be in a POR, don't put them in one. Let them stay in whatever rank they are in until they decide that this is their thing.
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It really doesn't have bearing on anything if units meet a few more weeks or few less weeks in the course of a year and isn't an indicator of unit health. This is a mindset that has been pushed by National moreso for marketing, membership, and financial reasons than for any real reason. -
Woke is not a real thing; just a hot button prod. Simple adherence to the Scout Law, Oath, and so on is not Woke, just civility and basic kindness for others, no matter their beliefs or how they may look, o what their name are. Ignorance held up by stupidity and sheeple. -
I saw the original email, I read the original NPR story (not helping with their DEI knot and rainbow slide photo btw), and I've now seen nothing much come out throughout the day except the leak/rumor; I mean, we got nothing? Rex Tillerson just did a video for Scouting America on Veterans Day; dudes got the connections at all levels in the Republican Party. None of these muldunes (https://www.scouting.org/about/governance/national-executive-board/) have anything for Scouting America? My council has 3 flag officers on the BOD and no one knows the whole story or has seen the full policy? This all smells like some sort of manipulation scheme; at this point all of the rage baiting is going to backfire. Everyone fired up about anti-DEI Hegseth and what happens if national decides to kill the Citizenship in Society MB over this?
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