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Aside from my anxieties. I am the sort of person where I just want the material. I am willing to sit there all day and watch it being presented. Keep a supply of snacks during the day and Im good. I have no tolerance for reflection and group discussions. Just get it done. I have 5 ticket ideas that I will probably go ahead and implement. I dont need a new neckerchief or beads to know I am doing what needs to get done for my Unit. I just wont be part of the club.

Use your common sense. And remember that the bureaucrats/lawyers who wrote the fine print don't have any common sense. "Help other people at all times", one of the very basic tenets of scouting, is a higher law than "don't ring the Salvation Army kettle bell in uniform". With the current PR situation, BSA should be grateful the the Salvation Army doesn't have a rule prohibiting Scouts from ringing the bell in uniform.

There are a great deal of rules in flying. It is an extremely complex activity. That is also one of the complaints you hear from volunteers as they peel the curtain back on Scouting...the rule set is complex. But that is as it should be...it, also, is a complex activity (or should we say a collection of complex activities) with OPK (other people's kids) Unfortunately, in both flying and Scouting, breaking the rules, intentionally or not, can have catastrophic consequences. https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/safety-moments/ The best pilots, and Scouters, first know the

Some things we have done since our state and council permitted the troops to start camping again: 1) Prior resuming in-person activities the troop had a mandatory scout-and-parent-must-participate zoom presentation about the covid precautions being implemented. Not once per trip, but once per scout. I think it was helpful. At least the scouts are doing a much better job of social-distancing at scout events that the church-youth-group kids are doing at church events. 2) No carpooling to or from camping trips. Parents must drive their own kids to the camp location. 3) Every s

Packed up my stuff and came home tonight while everyone was crossing the bridge the first night. It was not fun at all today, in fact it was mentally draining. Its not that there was alot of information, it was just a bad experience. My personality type does not favor being a WB participant.

I avoid the "bad kids" debate. My view is scouting can be good for everyone, but everyone is not good for scouting. Each individual has to be willing to work within scouting's boudnaries and expectations. If the individual can't, then the individual should find somewhere else to spend their time.

Extended explanations of the claim of "systemic" racism by the proponents and publicists of that claim suggest to me that those proponents and publicists are using "systemic" instead of de facto or, at the least, "really bad." I lived through systemic racism - segregation of public institutions by explicit rule of law; literacy tests designed to bar Black and Hispanic voters; concentration camps; maps on the walls of bank offices with areas drawn in red lines that were barred to loans to Black persons wishing to buy a home (an early New Deal FHA program), and racial immigration quot