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This 🙄! @BKS, encourage your troop to change its teaching model. Identify those scouts who have mastered some scout skills. Make them instructors. Then adults may sit back, enjoy some coffee, and demonstrate making gourmet meals for their fellow adults.

By the way, you also don't need an adult present when Scout skills are learned for advancement. Get those adults out of those groups, registered or not, and let the Scouts teach the skills. Let the older Scouts sign the younger Scouts off on the requirements. Only then does an adult need to be involved.

No, you don't need an MBC present when skills are learned. The MBC only needs to be the one to sign off when the Scout has completed the requirements to the satisfaction of the MBC.

Just saw this Town Hall notice on the TCC website. Interesting, the TCC and Coalition doing it together. Some day this is going to make for a really boring book or a drama-filled miniseries. TOWN HALL: The Official Committee of Tort Claimants’ and the Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice will hold a Town Hall Meeting on April 4, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. (ET). Zoom: https://pszjlaw.zoom.us/j/85281284960 (no registration required) One-Tap Mobile: +16694449171,,85281284960# Dial-In by Telephone: 1-888-788-009 (toll-free), Webinar ID: 852 8128 4960. If asked for a “Participa

The plan calls for a "first in, first out" FIFO process. BUT, that won't impact the amount of your award or how much you get. The Trust will start processing claims and making some portion of award with an eye to making sure enough is available over time. At the same time they'll be negotiating/suing non-settling insurers for additional monies. Survivors can expect multiple distributions of checks as monies are available. Take a look at the Madoff Bankruptcy. While extreme, that Trust is up to its 14th distribution to some creditors: https://www.madofftrustee.com/distributions-16.html

It's going to be fascinating to see how this shakes out. A lot of focus, and rightfully so, is on the numerator; how much money is needed NOW. Well, the other side of this is the denominator; the number of Survivors that complete the questionnaire to get an award and the number that are credible. Some number less than 82,500 will be the denominator. How many have given up or won't go to the hassle of completing the questionnaire? How many will provide a convincing argument to support their claim? What will appropriate support be in the eyes of the Trust? Surely this will be more than li

There will be significant work on a questionnaire to allow for claim processing and award designation. This will include input from the STAC and experts in mass tort claims as well as experts in assessing sexual abuse. The claim form was a first step. The next step will be to "get in line." Even the $3500 payment will require some degree of review to make sure there's enough credibility. There's a whole group of people out there who try to jump on every class action process just to see if no one's checking too closely. The $3500 requirement won't be extensive but it'll also require/remin

As another said, it depends on "wrap-up." The immediate concern for Survivors and the BSA is getting the plan to the point where it "goes effective." Then, the BSA follows the plan monetary and non-monetary agreements, Trust moves ahead, entities start paying the money they owe, and legal action against non-settling insurers may commence. So the plan becoming effective can happen in a couple months, maybe less, but a LOT has to do with what the objectors do to prevent that. Full wrap-up, as in when the money is all gone and Trust dissolved.....well, remember that there will still be a "fu