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Since it is a survey by BSA National Office, can they save time by going ahead and publishing the results now? Would save a lot of time and money to go ahead and tell the minions in the trenches what they want us to know. Your example of the First Class First Year is spot on. The real challenge is that it is NOT rocket science to keep Scouts active. But to justify the headquarters jobs and spend the money, they've got to do something that appears helpful. The secret?? Have a FUN program. Go camping, Go outside, Go do stuff. Now the problem is how to get that implemented at every tr

Reading the article, and some others, possibly the dad encouraged him to do the protest. Certainly the young man and his family have every right to protest in whatever way they care to and wherever they might feel the urge. They have that right as a US citizen. The First amendment is in fact the first for a reason. I many not agree with his protest, but he does have the right to protest. The problem is that the Cub is in fact representing not only his pack, but his Charted organization, his district, his council, and the BSA in general. If he wants to protest the pledge of allegi

(Long true story, stay to the end) Surreal lunch today for me. It brought bake memories that had slowly faded from my memory. In September of 2016, I was on a bike ride with my loving wife and a group of riders passed us. Moments later, there was an accident, a horrible accident. The rider in front had a blowout and crashed, next thing we see is a rider fly over the barrier on the bridge and fall 50 feet onto limestone. Most were in shock, and my co-worker got down to him to help him. I called 911, started directing traffic and someone called for someone who knew CPR. I raced down thinking th

I thought it may be neat to see what other uniform stuff people are finding out there, whether it be at a yardsale, on ebay, or at a thrift store. Here's a Cub Scout shirt jac I saw on ebay. I actually didn't bid, but I was watching it and someone won it at the last minute with a $49 minimum bid. I think it was a boys size 10, I'd love to have one of these in an adult size. I did win these khaki shorts (pics should be below), which I assume are from the 90's era "activity uniform." They are basically identical to the green ODL shorts, but just khaki in color rather than olive. New wi

Son's Troop is doing just that tomorrow. Outdoor service project for a business. Class A's will let any lookie-loos know its Scouts and not a bunch of boys messing around on private property. Being proud of their uniforms makes it an ever easier call. 😉

Angled stand? I didn't even think of that option! thank you!

I want not just the scouters to wear uniforms out-of-doors, I want the scouts to wear them, too! How else will the general public recognize that these girls are now Boy Scouts? (A Class B t-shirt won't quite do it, that might make them look like tag-alongs and sisters of scouts.)

Happy Scouts' Day to all my fellow American Scouters as we celebrate the Boy Scouts of America's founding 108 years ago! Are your Packs/Troops/Crews doing anything special to commemorate?

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I don't see any reason to think this wasn't the scout on his own. I was 10 the first time I worked on a political campaign. The campaign headquarters was on my paper route and they had a sign on the window saying "volunteers needed", so I walked in and volunteered. They handed me a stapler and a stack of posters and told me to go tack them up on telephone polls, and I did things like that for the next two months. It was the candidate my parents supported, but they had nothing to do with my volunteering and weren't themselves involved in the campaign.

My first thought was there are roughly a million kids in scouts doing all sorts of really great stuff and this one kid, and likely his parent, does something off the wall and here we are reading about it in the washington post. When I was 14 or 15 I certainly had it in me to do something like this. I probably wouldn't have done it at scout flag ceremony but I might have. And my reasoning would have been to just get all the adults' dander up. I was pretty good at that and when scouts do similar things now I catch myself. Now, if you ask this kid why he did it I'm sure there would be some altrui

Should scouts be allowed to protest while wearing the uniform? A time and place...?

Bless your heart for wanting to uniform in the out of doors!

Please bear with us. We are not disbelieving you. Rather we are disbelieving what national is putting out. Some of us have been involved withe the BSA for a long time in many different capacities. We have seen how National has skewed data in the past to get the results they wanted. And this has repeatedly happen over the years. EDITED: first case of that happening that I know of is the OPERATION FIRST CLASS report that @Eagledad talks about. As a 15 year old Life Scout, I even commented on how skewed the report was for aged based patrols. And sometimes BSA doesn't publish results, or even ig

Heck, I’m not sure if I can explain how utilities work to my house.

Also look at what the "rewards" are for completing the survey- Scout Shop gift cards. That's your National office funding those...

ugh, seriously people suck

From him: I wouldn’t be here without all of you. Life is short and today is all that we have control over! I am glad you didn’t do chest compressions. 😂 I couldn’t control what happened to me, but I can change how I react. Your perspective and memories really help put together the accident. I’m glad someone saw me go over the bridge!!

God puts us where we are for a purpose.

Pardon me for being foolish, but will there be control groups of non Scouts and Scouters, or is this yet another RAH RAH SCOUTING disguised as an attempt at a rigorous study? is there even a hypothesis?

I was part of a polled group when National was writing NYLT. Very little of the results I saw are in the course. I'm very skeptical because my observation is that National interprets data to fit in their predetermined plan instead of using it to question the present program. Take for example First Class in the First Year commitment. National found in their study that scouts who earn a first class rank in one year tend to stay in the troop for at least three years. So, they encouraged units to get scouts to first class in one year, even putting that promise in writing in all the Scout Ha