It seems to me, as a fellow SPL, that the SM didn't have a reason to fire him. "Failure to lead?" If that's the case, then the adults should have shown him how to lead, instead of simply firing him. It's not your son who has a leadership problem, it's the SM. Some kind of procedure should be drawn up that determines what happens when the SM is abusing his power. Before I joined my current troop, I was in one with a SM who constantly abused his power. Our procedure: We left the troop and formed a new one. Maybe it's time to do the same.
