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Fox 76

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  1. quazse, I appreciate your dead-on assessment of my dilemna, but I never said that I only wanted to hear negatives or that I would be bored by the positives. I understand Venturing and how it's supposed to work, so I don't need to be sold on its virtues. I have been branded by the Hybrid-coed Troop advocates as a "girl-hater" and "anti-Crew." So be it. In less that a week, I have watched the Troop start to unravel. At the Town 9/11 event yesterday that I coordinated with the Troop, in my last official act as Committee Chair, one of the parents informed me that before I arrived and the even
  2. Well, it's been seven months since I last posted on this issue, and a lot has happened. Not all good, unfortunately. The best advice I can give is that if you want to form a crew, have a SEPARATE plan and program for them and understand that it will be a SEPARATE unit. This is especially true, in my opinion, if your crew is like the one I have had to deal with, which is entirely made up of teenaged girls. I am, or rather was, a Troop CC who crossed swords with other adults over the omnipresent venture crew a few too many times. One boy decided to leave the Troop because, in his wor
  3. Let me add that we reinforce that notion that you only get one chance to make a first impression. When I was a Cubmaster, several area Troops came to our Crossing-Over ceremony to welcome their new Scouts. One Troop was represented by their Scoutmaster and their SPL. They really stood out to me, but for all the wrong reasons. The Scoutmaster was dressed in Jeans, sneakers, Scout shirt, no neckerchief or bolo, Major League Baseball cap (I won't mention the team to avoid getting off the subject). The SPL (an Eagle!) was even worse. He had on a half-unbuttoned Scout Shirt, Hawaiian
  4. Our Troop, at a minimum, expects the following at Troop meetings: Troop issued hat; Troop issued Neckerchief Scout shirt with tabs; Correct and complete insignia, including QUA, Trained, POR, etc. We encourage Scout pants and belt, or at least OD field pants like Dickies or Cabelas (almost identical to Scout pants at a third of the price). We TOLERATE, but do not LIKE blue jeans. We STRONGLY FROWN upon sweatpants; gym shorts or other "athletic" attire. For formal events, such as Color Guard Duty and Scout Sunday, nothing less than a complete and correct Class-A uniform
  5. Wow. Basementdweller isn't kidding about the Troll remark.
  6. Thanks for your thoughts, and I understand what you're both saying. However, IMO the Crew has no skill set to offer the Scouts. As I said, they are there to "hang out." Maybe I'm an outdated relic, but I think the Venture Patrol concept, even if they did morph into a Vneture Crew, would be far more effective as a Troop resource. A bunch of girly-girls (our Crew) doesn't have much to offer a bunch of active pre-adolescent boys.
  7. Let me add to this discussion. I think that the traditional Venture Patrol method has been WRONGLY deemphasized in favor of the politically correct Venture Crew concept. I am a Troop CC, and I am now at serious odds with some of the other Leaders regarding our two year old attached Venture Crew. You read that correctly: Attached. I accepted the chair position shortly after the Crew was chartered. While I am certainly not an advocate of the coed Venturing Program as a whole, I am not condemning it, either. I'm really not sure what constitutes a well-run crew and a healthy Troop/Crew
  8. This issue has recently come up in out Troop. However, in our case it isn't outright fighting yet. In our case, it's one Scout who is "handy," and sometimes impulsively strikes other Scouts. The Scoutmaster and myself (CC), along with the other leaders, are crafting a firm policy to deal with situations like this. Clearly, there is a difference between horseplay and assault, so that consideration must be made. What we are discussing at this point is first speaking with the parents of any boy who aggressivley lays his hands on another. If there is a repeat incident, the boy will be e
  9. Let me add to this discussion. I think that the traditional Venture Patrol method has been WRONGLY deemphasized in favor of the politically correct Venture Crew concept. I am a Troop CC, and I am now at serious odds with some of the other Leaders regarding our two year old attached Venture Crew. You read that correctly: Attached. I accepted the chair position shortly after the Crew was chartered. While I am certainly not an advocate of the coed Venturing Program as a whole, I am not condemning it, either. I'm really not sure what constitutes a well-run crew and a healthy Troop/Crew
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