Hi, I hope you can help our pack out. One of our younger scouts is being retained in school. Our trainer for our district was very adamant at CLS that if a scout is held back in school he should re-do his scouting year and participate in a denner position and "re-earn" his rank, so he will be with his classmates. We questioned this at training, but were told that's how it is...first graders are tigers, etc...and this saves problems when it's time to transition to a troop, because he'll only be finishing 4th grade (but elligible for AOL in March of 4th grade.) On the other hand if he's already earned his Tiger, his advancement to his next rank should not be dependent on his school grade.
As a DL and a parent I see the pros and cons of each side. So it comes down to is this official written BSA policy or would this be a pack and parent decision? TIA
