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  1. I can't help but draw a parallel to the recent backlash from many longtime Star Wars fans against the newest Star Wars movie just released, The Last Jed,i to some of the BSA's more recent decisions regarding its membership and leadership policies. In the case of both Star Wars and the Boy Scouts of America, for multiple decades, there has been a long standing franchise/organization which each had a deep rooted core audience which each embraced the fundamental philosophies, principles, legacy and history of the franchise/organization. Jump to 2017 though and in the case of both the S
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  2. I don't get it, qwasze. Why would you call them "Scoutmaster" anyway, if that is not their title? I don't think it matters whether your title includes "master" or "leader." It's what you do with the position that matters.
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  3. I actually haven't seen the movie. For a lot of reasons, I was disappointed with The Force Awakens and from what I was hearing about the The Last Jedi (i.e. the amped up feminism, the social justice themes and aspects of the story that seem to be aimed at destroying the original Star Wars legacy) I just couldn't support the movie, which is very sad to me as this was Carrie Fisher's final film and it also represented Mark Hamill's real return to the screen as Luke Skywalker; both of which I definitely would have ideally wanted to support fully. ****SPOILER**** From what I have heard
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  4. Wow, Eagle94, I could not have posted a better response. Very well done. I've posted this story before; we had a mother dragged into our troop by her son who would not join any other troop. She had him visit our troop 5 times hoping that he would see that the well uniformed Eagle Mill down the street was a much better fit than our ragtag disorganized patrol method program. Our families are friends (and still so today 20 years later), so I felt for her struggle and left her alone during her visits. Her son joined and she reluctantly followed, but she kept her distance from the adults
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  5. I often wonder if summer camp would be better without as many adults. I remember attending a week of summer camp when I was in 7th grade. No parents. No unit leaders. It was just camp staff and campers. I often think it was a better experience than troops camping at summer camps as too often the unit adults get in the way of the program. More importantly, the unit adults get in the way of the scouts growing up on their own and learning their own way.
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  6. So, in other words, you provide similar content, only diluted by FB's feeble interface and maniacle commitment to oversize adds.
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  7. I would say the first thing is to try to remember the Scout Law when dealing with her. I would guess that the best way to do it is when she drops off/picks up the boy. Have the COR, CC and CM do it. It's not worth risking losing other cubs over one disgruntled parent.
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  8. A lot of "National BSA Policy" really is just your local camp policy, or just somebody repeating what they were told from somebody else who was repeating what they were told from somebody else who was repeating what they were told from somebody else, ad infinitum. There are a lot of policies that really are nothing more than myth.
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  9. After 61 years of camping I have seen my fair share of arch cuts from tent stakes, burns from stepping on a hot coal and toe-nails ripped off, along with a broken toe here or there. All them were preventable.
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