RememberSchiff

Please many of us understand the frustration and disappointment . Let's see how many times the BSA program has become not the program I signed up for and ... 1972 - The Improved Scouting Program Alternate rank requirements - I still hate that. 1988 - Female troop leaders . This opened the door to coed scouting. Instant recognition - The Gimme, gimme change. What stupidity! FCFY Summit - the financially sustainable money-pit that 90% will never attend. Adults required on patrol outings Family Scouting ... But here I am and other scouters too, because of our scouts. My $0.0

That is an interesting idea. I am seeing more colleges offer bachelor degrees in Outdoor Recreation.

"Horses Healing Hearts," program at Trinity Circles Ranch in Newton, MO http://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/horses-healing-hearts-and-the-boy-scouts/794125434 Camp Bell (NH) has a Horsemanship MB and it is remarkable the effect a horse can have, especially calming those with anxiety disorders.

I thought Councils did this with their non-member camp staffs, e.g. create a Crew 1 so that all are now uniformed members?

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/08/18/boy-scouts-list-former-hill-country-camp-for.html 2,348 acre scout camp sold for nearly $25million. They (Sam Houston Council?) will use the proceeds for the development of the new Camp Strake in the Houston area. I thought the sale of the old Camp Strake covered that expense and then some? farewell... http://republicranches.com/landlisting/el-rancho-cima/

The Eagle Project should be about demonstrating leadership delivering a service not perseverance processing our own paperwork. I grant the real world is more the latter which they soon abundantly see with college applications. The new 5P's: Perseverance Processing Paperwork Pleases Proceduralists My $0.01,

Scout Troop 521 will head to Wyoming to catch a glimpse of the rare event. Eight years ago, Boy Scout Sam Kimpton and his father, Peter Kimpton, were reading an astronomy book and learned that the United State was due for a solar eclipse. Peter Kimpton promised his son that they would make the trip to see the eclipse. "The prospect that I even thought as a kid, like, 'Oh, hey, look. It's a good idea,'" Sam Kimpton said. "But now, thinking of it, it's possible. Why shouldn't we do it?" The two are heading to Yellowstone National Park, but they're not going alone. Seven boys and 1

His project signed completed by beneficiary, my younger son has since spent over 12 hours over two weeks filling out that $@%#^$% redundant workbook and he still has more work to do, We estimate when completed with attachments it will be longer than my older son's patent application + college thesis + our state and federal tax returns. His answer to What was most challenging...? Filling out the Project Workbook.

Somehow I don't think flush toilets and hot showers will be a problem.

Thanks. Probably worth a second look. We found round trip flights from Northeast were cheaper into ABQ than Denver or Colorado Springs. With our luck, Route 25 would be shutdown in Colorado due to brush fire at a marijuana farm.

More about the Scouting connection along with photos in this link. http://gazette.com/behind-a-wwii-internment-camps-barbed-wire-two-scouts-forged-a-bond.-it-endured-when-they-both-entered-congress./article/1609398 Some excerpts:. I definitely recommend reading above link. When they are together, it's not hard to see the Boy Scouts they were when they met seven decades ago, in the barbed-wire Japanese internment camp that sprawled over desolate fields. One was imprisoned here; one belonged to the only troop that agreed to a jamboree on the inside. .... Two months after

@@Wood Badge Jim welcome to scouter.com

http://www.mountain-news.com/news/article_2e81ade8-837a-11e7-b9c2-4be226327bf8.html The Hubert Eaton Scout Reservation (formerly Forest Lawn Scout Reservation) near Lake Arrowhead has received a historic $10 million endowment from longtime supporter, the AS&F Foundation. The Boy Scouts of America Greater Los Angeles Area Council (GLAAC) announced on July 29 receipt of the donation, which will benefit the GLAAC’s Boy Scouts’ adventure camp. John Llewellyn, a Distinguished Eagle Scout and past council president for the GLAAC, presented the multi-million-dollar gift on behalf of h

Here we go again.... http://www.wlox.com/story/36152296/police-boy-scout-camp-burglarized-guns-stolen A dozen guns stolen from a Boy Scout camp in Hancock County are missing following a burglary that landed two men in jail. Hancock County Chief Deputy Glenn Grannan says scout leaders reported 24 guns stolen from Camp Salmon Scout Reservation on V Bar Road after the cafeteria and shop at the camp were burglarized Aug. 5. A truck was also stolen from the camp. Jeremy Perkins, 30, and Dameon Cuevas, 34, - both of the Kiln - were arrested Aug. 11. Each faces two counts of comm

"...the next total eclipse for North America will come on April 8, 2024. " http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/whens-the-next-total-solar-eclipse-in-the-us

O’Malley, his fellow trip leader, Diemen Baily, and the eight young men had hiked over 20 miles when they started to summit Hawkeye Point on Monday morning. They were less than a mile into their hike when O’Malley slipped, wedged his foot in between two boulders and then fell. The Scouts, having divvied up O’Malley’s gear amongst themselves, first tried to assist him in walking to the nearest trailhead, but they quickly learned he was too injured. That’s when they fastened the stretcher, but they soon realized it would take too long to get the injured man out of the wilderness t

Can be earned by Cubs, Boy Scouts, Venturers. More info: http://www.scouting.org/eclipse2017.aspx#weblinks

Make the most of these years with your son as they will never come again. It does not have to be Scouting.

Where did National say the 2013 membership change was designed to stop membership losses? https://scoutingmagazine.org/2013/08/moving-forward-together-after-the-2013-national-annual-meeting/ https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2013/05/23/bsa-membership-resolution-passes-with-more-than-60-percent-of-vote/ http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Awards/JourneyToExcellence/vos_findings.aspx

Only if there is BSA trademarks, will the fabricator need approval. Our class b (no affliation with company) shirts just say Troop NN, Our Town on front and big NN number on back. Less than $8 in a moisture-wicking, quick-dry synthetic material.

BSA history in the last 50 years has many examples of one exception being made which lead to more down the road. Sometimes the down the road reasons are fairness, sometimes to increase membership, and sometimes to mitigate legal problems.

I agree. A child who is NOT taught to self-advocate and who does NOT learn to interact with diverse groups will develop more within a group of his/her "own kind". But f we claim to teach lessons for life, we should be teaching the former. It sure has worked for my son. Another $0.02

That's why he teaches college. Kids should be taught to self-advocate. I'm a Dad whose younger son has learning disabilities as confirmed by a full neuro-psych testing (two days) performed every three years. My son attended a special needs school (coed) and perhaps the most important tool he was given was self-advocacy. So he will politely speak up and ask a teacher to slow down, repeat, help after school, comment,...ditto with everyone else. Who is in the group does not matter to him nor should it. Four long years later but still on an IEP, he is now in a regular school and doing great.

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I doubt my sons would call me progressive, but to paraphrase that quote Birds of a feather gathered together are more likely to chirp. Sounds true enough, but not real world. We should teach kids how to politely and productively interact in the melting pot.