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  1. My son did his last one of the season Monday. The pack wanted AoL ceremony only as the kids have already crossed over (we'll put aside that hot mess for this thread). Quite literally was 7 minutes, start to finish (we spent almost an hour driving to get to the ceremony!). Our lodge had used a script that had a narrative of Akela in past years, and that ceremony was about 12-16 minutes long, without the bridging. Length of ceremony itself is not important, but that there is some actual "ceremony" in the ceremony is, and the new AoL script is a rambling mess. I have seen no AoL scout, nor p
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  2. Question for the long time Scouters out here, do you consider the Scouts you worked with YOUR Scouts even 5, 10, 20+ years after working with them? I mentioned a few months back how I had one Eagle come and stay with me a few days. He's a "Nomad," converting a UHaul truck into a mobile office and apartment. He's driving all over the US and I keep up via Facebook. Last time I saw him was 21 years ago. I visited another Eagle when I went home for a few days. Wasn't a long visit, but it brought back memories and we were able to catch up on folks we knew and had not heard from. Again it
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  3. Agreed. A lot of over the top assumptions on what is being culturally appropriated. Wearing war paint, doing chants, that could be cultural appropriation (especially if the chant is nothing but actual gibberish, if even the words are truly from a native language). I still maintain that what the OA needs to do is reign in the usage of regalia that is based on anything other than Lenni Lenape- the principals in the ceremonies are LL; not Sioux, not Seminole, not Tacoma, etc. That gives a far greater opportunity to have consistency in application and instruction, so that we don't begin to go
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  4. I haven't checked the Scouts BSA shirts, but the current khaki shirts being sold are embroidered.
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  5. They are especially my scouts when they go on be professional video-journalists of stories like this Orlando Sentinel article
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  6. "Today, your journey in our Pack ends, but your journey in your Troop begins." Cubs are still Scouts, so I would spend less focus on what kind of scout they are, just defer to describing as what type of unit they are/will be in as a compromise.
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  7. I think that's an important point, FireStone. Arrows, especially, are a pretty much universal image. Most cultures throughout history have used some kind of arrow. There is a great deal of symbolism in the arrow, as well as a number of mythological references that can be pulled from that use that imagery.
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  8. So this past weekend both of our troops (boys & girls) held their March overnighter at a nearby US Forest Service campground. The two SPL's asked my cohort SM & me for advice on where to emplace the patrols of both troops. Seeing an opportunity to work-in some European history and Norse mythology - as well as avoid the awkward "male patrols" & "female patrols" monikers - I suggested they might "place the Paladin patrols in these campsites and the Valkyrie patrols in those campsites". After some quick explanation, the boys' SPL seemed agreeable with the comparison to Charlema
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  9. Policies made at the 50,000 foot level, far far away from actual persons (dare I say customers??) who are involved in your program, and made by peoples that are not involved in the day to day, actually in the trenches will more than often miss the mark. Typically as the Scouting volunteers move up the ladder of their respective council they move further away from the day to day actual "business" of Scouting. They will be able to speak volumes of how they are involved in the program; Woodbadge staff, working staff at Commissioner College, staffing an event at the council camporee, doing s
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  10. For youth: Adults getting involved and taking over the training rather than let the youth do it Training is to academic in nature, i.e. indoor classroom rather than outdoors and hands on (usually because of the issue above) For Adults Adults are not very interested in getting training Too few adequately trained trainers Training gets shortened more every year, so some elements are dropped from training and others are just shortened to the extreme Training is to academic in nature, i.e. indoor classroom rather than outdoors and hands on (once again see t
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  11. "You are no longer a Cub, you are now a Scout."
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