Put Your Family First

Hi anarchist, Just to let you know, I checked with area councel for our area and asked about the belt loops and what you posted was not completly correct. This is the info they gave us: Belt loops are awarded to boys who complete the three belt loop requirements in an academic subject or sport. Participation can take place individually or with the family, in the den or pack, or in the school or community. Academics belt loops are gold, and Sports belt loops are silver. Belt loops may be worn with the Cub Scout uniform on the Cub Scout belt. Webelos Scouts who have chosen to wear t

Ok, that makes sense, we did those 2 out of the den/pack also. Plus, the skiing, golfing, things like that. We could have done those with the pack, but for skiing, we would have to coordinate with 12 other families and drive 50 some or more miles. That would have been interesting.

Just to let everyone know, since we kept track of the belt loops my son did not receive but earned, we just went to the scout shop and picked them all up. When I spoke with the old scout leader yesterday, I let him know we picked up the belt loops, all he could say was our son did not earn them because he did not do those things with the den. I did remind him that our son did come in and present what he had learned with the den and according to the books, that was exactly what he needed to do and he earned all the belt loops we picked up. Our old den/pack went from September-August and norm

Thank you for the information Torveaux.

Oh sorry, no, our son earned belt loops before he was a Webelos and didn't receive them. Also, we know that after the boys turn Webelos we can't work on projects on the side and sign off on them. The things we were talking about was before Webelos. Sorry for confusion. Plus, I don't believe that FScouter meant that all leaders are untrained or rogue leaders, I know I didn't. I have met some really great leaders. About the dues for the den/pack, there is no policy for our old den/pack and there should be 1 in place. With the reimbursement we are wanting for activities that have not happened

I apologize. I did not mean to make you feel like you have waisted your time. This was the very first home we have purchased and with finalizing that, moving and getting everything else sorted out including our son with scouts, things have been just a little stressfull. I really don't know how other packs or dens work, but the ones we have been apart of, no leader has had to put their own money in to purchase anything. Most of the time we have extra money from previous years to be able to do extra things. I would like to thank everyone who posted to help us figure out what we should do.

Thank you for the responses. This response is mainly for ScoutNut. I really don't have time to type a response for everything you have written. But I can say we have gone to the Pack treasurer and have spoken to the old den leader for reimbursement. No, awards are not purchased ahead of time for our old den or pack, they are purchased after the boys complete and have earned them. We already knew that the den purchased 1 belt loop, etc., etc., etc.. That is why we have always explained to the old den leader we will be more than happy to purchase anything extra our son has earned. We had no

That's what we thought but our new den leader said we had to get a signature from his old den leader to purchase the belt loops our son has earned. I think we will just go down and purchase the ones our son has earned and see if we can do that without the old den leaders signature. Our son is still working on the other belt loops he hasn't earned and the 6 badges he hasn't earned. He has so much fun learning the new activities and working on new projects. Thank you so much for the reply.....

We paid all of our yearly dues in September 2004 for the year 2005 in our previous den. We then bought a new home and moved in Jan. 2005. We had to pay our yearly dues again in our new den for 2005 and then went back to the old den to get reimbursement for the months we will not be with them and were told that we will not get any money back. How do we get reimburesed for what we are owed? We were only with the old pack for 5 months. Another problem we encountered is our son did not get 5 badges he had earned at the old pack, the new pack did get him those badges. But then our son has also