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AMEN BOBWHITE!!! Granted if you are providing the full program your unit should be growing! You should be proud of this. Your Scouts should be proud of this. Hopefully your Scouts are already talking to other kids to join. OR Are you one of these units that just survive on the local Cub Scout Pack and do no active recruiting yourself??? Many of these units, I have found, do nothing to help these packs out - they just stick out their hands in the spring and ask for more scouts. All the BSA is asking of a soon to be FIRST CLASS SCOUT is to do something, according to many of you it sound

In regards to the orginal idea behind these postings: The BSA offers its program to other organizations: Relgious, Community minded organizations, social and faternal organizations, etc. as a means to help the youth in their community. One of the largest areas of CO's are Relgious organizations. If the BSA were to allow atheists, or gays into Scouting as leaders, these organizations would pull their charter - thus providing no program for the youth in our communities. Without the support of the CO's there would be no Scouting. Recruiting vs. Retention I agree with the posti

Thank you to all - great ideas. In response to the reregistering question - Once you are registered with the council you are registered - period. At the recharter time, it should be the Adv. Committees job to ensure everyone is up to date. Not an easy task I am sure - but fairly easy since MB Counselors are not required to pay the registraion fee. They should be approved by the District Adv. committee, the DE, and then the Council Adv. committee - if following the proper chain of command, however, I know our Council basicly rubber stamps any application unless something pops up durin

My response is a question - In the orginal post, SCOUTLDR mentioned something about the individual unit being able to conduct a Eagle BOR. Is this true, I have never heard of it. Any paperwork evidence to support this?

In reading through a number of different posts, in all areas, I am seeing a concerning theme - members of the unit doing the MB Counseling. I ask you, are you looking to individuals outside of the unit (experts in the field) to do the counseling for MB's? I am not saying you are not the expert in the field for a few, but when a leader says he is qulified to teach more then 3-5 MB's, I would question if they were providing the entire program to the boys and holding them accountable for the entire MB. I know there are some units who are very good at building a resourse of "exper

No person may add, change or alter the requirements of a Rank advancement (including what positions fulfill leadership roles) or MB. The BSA has put in place certain time restraints to particular ranks and merit badges. These are found in MB's such as Personal Mgmt., and all ranks above 1st class. As an Eagle Scout, I shudder at the thought of the 13-14-15 year old Eagle Scout. I shudder more at the thought of an Eagle Scout who earns his Eagle at 16-17-18 years of age and is later seen on the TV or in the paper for obvious "unscoutlike activity". As a leader, we have no right