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Ah yes, coed scouting.

When it is not fun anymore. It is still fun when I am out with my scouts.

I wish there was a groan voting button. You would have earned your share today. 😀

I found the videos and posted a link to the site on another thread. Thanks guys!

Well, that's one reason I wouldn't wait till the end of the year to award ranks. As soon as a boy can get the requirements done, he should get his rank - in my program in fact, we don't follow school calendars at all. When a boy turns 10 he joins my Webelos group, and he is with me for a year till he turns 11. We don't take summer breaks, and we don't have a "start" or "end" to the program year. It's ongoing, and boys earn their ranks as they complete the adventures/other requirements for them. Obviously it means careful planning and juggling of activities, but it sure is nice not to be behold

There is roughly 60M youth in scouting age in USA. All scouting combine probably has 4M youth? I would be more interested in seeing why 56M youth are not in scouting vs worry about the 0.03M in Trails Life or few thousand in all of the other various scouting organizations.

So the first US scoutmaster was Mrs. Myra Greeno Bass?

The insane thing is that IOLS. training in that district teaches that axes are too dangerous for scouts to use. In fact scouters are discouraged from using then as well. Sets a bad example for the boys don't you know.