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Yep, delegate, delegate, delegate. If you are doing your job right, you really don't have time for that stuff. It's better to stand back the day of loading the cars for summer camp and let others deal with the chaos of final checks, signatures, and so on. You will get plenty of your own questions. There is also a real benefit for getting parents involved. They will have more pride and buy-in if they are involved. You really need to find a good CC. They make or break good troops. Barry

We as adult leaders should maintain the "neat and tidy" approach to our uniforms but should wear them in full. We have awards as youth, awards as adults, and awards from external parties (like the Community Service Award). Personal memory, and reflecting from my current scouts: Cub Scouts don't really care about what adults have on the adult uniform until closer to AOL. When they understand that what they are about to earn will be on their uniform even as adults they get kind of excited. Older Scouts care a lot about what adults have on their uniform. I remember seeing th

We always did the same as Inquisitive. This is actually the kind of role that is perfect to delegate to one of the parents. It’s purely an organizational project, doesn’t involve camping, and doesn’t involve having any particular scout skill or scouting background. What it does require is someone who can successfully wade through kludgy websites and be on top of deadlines and communications. And it’s usually not that hard to force somebody that’s not you to step up. ‘Mr. Former CC who used to do this isn’t here, so if we want to go to summer camp then someone not me has to do this.”

Ah, sounds like you have the right team for a great troop. I also had a great new CC while I was learning. We went from 15 scouts to 100 scouts in five years. It takes a good team willing to change from what doesn't work. Learning is part of the process for growing, and part of the fun. Barry

It depends on the unit. Our unit delegates this task to a parent. It requires somebody who is orderly, keeps up with deadlines, is good at filling out forms, and follows up. Do you want your scouts to go to summer camp? As SM I am sure you do. A lot of times tasks that aren't being done fall to the Scoutmaster.

No. Most cub scouts and even scouts didn’t wear the world crest as they didn’t participate in an international activity.

Clipping corners off Totin Chip card for infractions was the practice in my troop as a youth 60+ years ago. Don't recall it happening, though. Inattention to sharps safety is rather self-regulating; I learned a lot nursing cuts due to X-acto knives.

It depends... If you have a small Troop... say 15 Scouts or less, and you have the bandwidth, then maybe. Our Troop is larger. This job would be too much... so we have one person tagged to do all the Summer Camp admin support. - Registration of Troop - Putting in the Roster - Cat-herding the MB class sign ups - Sending out notices - Collecting the fees from family, coordinating payments to Camp, and recording it all in Scoutbook. - And swim checks prior to camp... We have a separate person handling all the medical forms and associated admin...

*sigh*.. It depends... I taught Sharp Tools at IOLS for many years. My dad had been a Timber Cruiser in his younger years and we lived up the road from an old time saw mill, run off the PTO of a Cat dozer. I taught and showed wannabe SMs knives, axes (single, double bit), hatchets (several patterns) and saws (folding camp, two man crosscut). How to handle, how to sharpen, how to care for and use safely. We went over ALL the Totin' Chip safety guidelines and use. Comes CSDC, and I did Scout Skills. In standing up the flag poles (3 !) I had the service of several Scouts.

We did this a couple of years ago, going "outside" the system. We were the unit that merged into another one. Our Scouts & myself transferred into the other unit. In our case, doing it within the system would not have worked. We did not need council intervention into it. They haven't had anything to do with us prior to that, so we didn't need their help in that either. Both of our CO's were supportive (or at least understanding) of the change.

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Congrats! Here's how to work this "within" the system. 1. Make sure your CO's are good with this. Check with your CORs. If the CO's are willing to support a merge, you will be able to make it happen in spite of whatever resistance you meet. However, if a CO does not wish to "give up" their program, things may develop some tension. Especially since all gear and money technically belongs to the CO's. 2. THEN, get COR approval (recommend an email) to conduct cross-unit activities, including camping.... 3. THEN, contact your Unit Commissioner and tell them of this develo

Curia advisari vult or c.a.v., a Latin legal term meaning "the court wishes to be advised" In this situation, I think it means that the court is considering awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Purdue Pharma, and thereby "be advised."

I saw this on Scouting.org which plays into your point https://www.scouting.org/program-updates/5th-anniversary-of-girls-in-scouts-bsa-survey/ 5th Anniversary of Girls in Scouts BSA Survey March 3, 2024 We’re celebrating the 5th anniversary of girls joining the Scouts BSA program, and we want to know about your Scouts BSA experience! Every registered girl for whom we have a valid email address in the Scouts BSA program and a statistically

Not able to read this entire thread, but thought this was an interesting comment. I do think there are difference in beliefs and values between various groups. We shouldn't dismiss those. That said, when in person (which is much easier to have these discussions) a very conservative friend told me that in many ways, our end goals are similar it's just the path to get there is different which I agree and therefore agree with the intent above. As I drove up my gay/trans scout to camp, they were concerned a bit about acceptance. They live in a community and go to a school and church that

On my right pocket I wear more excess than I would prefer but the council I'm in tends to drown out those that don't wear Coup Beads (Mic O Say and Order of the Arrow). I used to wear my dongle with Vigil pin but I had way too many people see my uniform and ask why I wasn't in OA (i had a lodge flap as well as the dongle) So I started wearing the mini-sash and that got at least a few realizing I'm a fellow member. I still get some that dont see Coup Beads and think I'm not in but at least some see the "mini-sash" and now recognize I'm a member. I would prefer to wear just my original "d