I have read and heard this and similar questions / conclusions / complaints before.
I am bewildered each time.
If Patrol method is not working in a troop, then it’s because of the troop. More often than not, Patrol method is failing because it is being impeded by adults. Left to their own devices youth will naturally gravitate towards what we call the Patrol method.
Yes, the recent policy changes of requiring 2-21+ registered leaders makes it more difficult, but it does not make it impossible.iu
In my time as training chair, the hardest thing I had teaching SM/ASM’s wasn’