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bls2 wrote: BUT on the other hand... if they receive a bar for one year of perfect attendance, that would be what they have to hang on the wall with all of their other Cub Scout awards and acheivements.... but it would seem silly (to me anyway) to be proud of a one year perfect attendance, knowing that I had 4 years or whatever.... Makes that one year award equally meaningless, IMO. ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is right in line with how we were trying to reconcile this. Is it a meaningless award or is it meaningful. We could slic
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I don't know how much it matters to the discussion but since someone brought up the DL and CM doing the right thing, in this case the CM, DL, and Scoutparent are all the same person. I'm the CC. Also, the award DID exist within the BSA awards for Cub Scouts. What makes attendance different is that the unit defines the criteria. Since we didn't define it until 2011, it is odd for me to award it for 2010 and 2009. That said, if you applied the criteria retroactively, the boys would have earned it. I wasn't in favor of the retroactive awards, but have since yielded. FYI, our crit
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Two years ago we started using the Perfect Attendance award. We defined the criteria and gave out the bars at the end of the program year at our annual camp out. Since all of our second year Webelos are crossing over soon, we decided to credit them with their pin for this year since their program year is ending in Feb and not May. The troops don't use the attendance award, so no chance of them getting double counted in May with a troop. Our den leaders of the outgoing boys want to take this a step further and award bars for years prior to us using the award as a pack. They have most of
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Our Webelos parents have to be registered to attend resident camp. Parents are not required to attend with scouts like Bear camp, but in our pack, we get 100% parent participation, which means... they have to be registered with the BSA. For Bear camp, they don't. Can't say I understand the difference.
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Basementdweller - We have to register them with the BSA. They complete the full adult application. It is a Council requirement.
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ScoutNut - We are required to register parents for Webelos camp. The update to this story is that we are welcoming a new Tiger Cub and his family to our pack next week.
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Let's all keep this to the interpretation and understanding of the policies and not their merit. That discussion can go down hill fast.
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My biggest question is about partner being his stand in Akela when mom can't be at the meeting. I'm assuming mom can be registered as Scout Parent when he's Webelo and she can go to camp with him. I certainly don't expect this to be an issue with the den/pack and we both assume she can't be a registered leader. Only downside for her is telling son that partner can't take him to scout events in her place. I'm hopeful that this isn't a problem.
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I've got questions out to my district, but does anyone know how gay and lesbian parents are officially viewed by BSA? I'll report back on what I hear from my district director. I've got a prospective Tiger Cub lives with mom and mom's same sex partner. He's super excited about Scouts. Is mom allowed to be his adult partner (Akela)? Can mom's partner bring him to an occasional meeting? I believe she cannot be a registered leader (den, committee, etc), but I've asked for confirmation on that as well. Awesome mom, awesome kid, and awesome partner. I'm betting this would be a lif
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"The US flag is held upright at all times by the color guard. Sometimes a bit difficult to do by the younger scouts ... " Actually, our boys can hold a flag upright a lot better than tilting it forward. They have to hold the extended weight, which is harder. We've done it that way because that's what we were taught by a former Cubmaster. I don't see anything in the US Flag code to support his teachings or yours. That's what I'm trying it find is what is right according to the US government.
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Thanks, all. The critique wasn't from the promoter. Just some random guy. The promoter loves us as we've done color guard for them six times this year and three last year. The team made the playoffs and they had 48 hours before the first game. They called us first. They proactively called us to set dates at the beginning of teh season, too. We have a good rapport with them. Draping was a bad word. Thanks for calling me on that. I think "Fall" was a word I read somewhere. The idea being that the flag opens up more to see if more visibly. I'm certainly not defending or promot
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Here's a picture. https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306583_10151455871490223_535190222_23344277_1652990938_n.jpg
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Tilted forward to let the flag fall slightly.
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Our Cub Scout pack was responsible for color guard tonight at a minor league sporting event. Had a guy tell me tonight that the US flag should never "drape" in a color guard. We teach out boys to carry the flags upright and then drape as the stop to present the colors. The US flag is always at the highest point of all flags present, and so forth. Anyway, I seem to remember reading something that the US flag should be draped, but now I can't find anything in the US code that says this either way. I find rules of not dipping to other flags, but that seems different from what I'm talki
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I got the idea of the honorary arrow from a University of Scouting session I attended this Fall. They had mentioned honorary arrows for parents, leaders, or mentors who played a significant role in the Scouting life of the boys.