RememberSchiff

Thanks for the info. Excuse me while I go stand by the fire to dry off.

I thought YP training could be taken online WITHOUT creating a MyScouting account and logging in. I thought this was done to make it easier for reluctant non-registered adults to get the training. Just enter name, listen to course, take test and print out ticket. Some parents came back to me tonight, still non-YP, telling me that I was all wet. Seems I am?

Well consider today, I received an email from my son's school that he has summer vacation homework and I and Mrs. Schiff are responsible that he gets it done. Neither happened or would have happened to my parents. I am tempted to channel my Dad and tell them in blunt language to do their job. Back then there were consequences - spankings and worse. Yeah I got the belt. The phrase "Just wait 'til your father comes home" was dreaded. No social promotions back then. My parents did not have to worry about censoring movies, mail, tv, or books as the bad stuff was just not accessible. There

Good "Part 1". I look forward to reading Part 2. It is harder being a parent today and the fault is not entirely with parents.

Oops, I meant the movie Brazil.

Personally I thought this was now covered in the 4+ pages BSA health form required for camp. Anyway a parent, who had signed his son's health forms but not a separate camp Pick-up Authorization Form (sounds like movie Brazil, Brazil), needed to pick-up his son early. What an unnecessary headache all around!

Yawn, how successful was the NAACP in preventing the Martin Luthor King statue from being done offshore by sculptor Lei Yixin of Changsha, China using Chinese granite. Let the NAACP erase that piece of crap first, before they give any thought to even proposing erasing a real work of beauty (best viewed at night).

http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2015-07-15/athens-clarke-surplus-sailboats-go-local-sea-scouts Athens, Georgia Eight sailboats — six 8-foot craft, a 10-foot model and a 14-foot boat, will go to Sea Scout Ship 444, sponsored by the Winterville Civitan Club. Sea Scouts are a co-ed program of the Boy Scouts of America, and while Ship 444 already has boats at its disposal, the 8-foot Optimist sailboats work well as training vessels, according to Michele Matthews, an adult leader of Ship 444. And, she said, the smaller craft work well on smaller bodies of water such as Lake Chapman

Well if they intentionally tried to kill us, I think our survival chances would dramatically improve.

Family nights seem to work better when the camp controls the herd. Limit families to a specified area - say the parade ground and campfire ring. No running up to a campsite to drop-off stuff or getting a camp tour. My preference would be for scout to sit with their unit at campfire, but somehow the umbilical gets re-attached. Sorry this happened. Safety is job 1 and that includes keeping the sparks away from the gunpowder. My $0.02

Arrrgh, I should have appended this to an earlier link about these camps. Sorry. http://scouter.com/index.php/topic/26888-two-more-camps-bite-the-dust/

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/northwoods-boy-scout-camps-head-into-a-poignant-sunset-b99536313z1-314066621.html http://www.threeharborscamps.org/#!lefebernorthwoods/c1k5m Three Harbors Boy Scout Council of Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties decided to close LeFeber which consists of two scout camps on 1,140 acres in the midst of the Nicolet National Forest. and a Cub Scout camp, the Robert S. Lyle Scout Reservation located about 17 miles away in Elcho. Citing a drop in the number of Scouts visiting the camp, a survey of parents who don't want their boys to travel so far f

Why was she an "adult" at camp? Did she have YP training?

The Venturers are challenging your authority and getting help from their parents. I'd say some training is in order. The Crew leaders (the kids as you call them) should be planning (soap, water, sunscreen) and leading their activities. You should be standing back and advising. Maybe you could bring in someone who has melanoma for a fun talk. Whoever leads, the point has to be made that there are consequences for not following safety rules - sunburn now, maybe melanoma later, ...maybe removal from your crew. My $0.02,

Good points. He took the risk to himself, perhaps just in time to save his Dad.

Yes, handled as a Youth Protection matter.

http://www.wdam.com/story/29523046/missouri-boy-called-a-hero-for-saving-dad-from-electrocution FREDERICKTOWN, MO: A 13-year-old boy is being called a hero for saving his dad's life. It happened as the father and son, from Fredericktown, were fixing a broken air conditioning unit. Trevan West has been a boy scout for three years. He said its taught him what to do during any type of emergency. A skill he put to good use in real life. "I ran up to it and I grabbed it and it shocked me, so I tackled him to get it off of him,†described West. During a routine task, West's dad to

Must have been a young council exec. In similar circumstances, I usually get a bobblehead nod and "I hear ya"...same result though. As for your second paragraph, I hear ya. My $0.02

Yes and they were not happy. Another officer arrived and there were some radio discussions regarding a tow truck. They decided to give me a "break" regarding the insurance card but not on the speeding. Catch and release?

One interpretation might be "if you,as a volunteer working with kids, are good in your own state, you are good in PA up to 30 days", but how would PA law enforcement know? Schiff got pulled over for speeding in PA. In MA, "License and registration, please". In PA, "License, registration, and proof of insurance card". Officer, we don't have an insurance card issued in MA, there's an insurance stamp on the registration. "Well you have a problem. You are not in MA."

Seems correct. On a PA gov site http://keepkidssafe.pa.gov/cs/groups/webcontent/documents/document/C_135249.pdf What is the provisional clearance requirement for volunteers? Individuals who reside in another state or country may serve as a volunteer for no more than 30 days as long as they provide clearances from their state or country of residence. If the individual will be volunteering for more than 30 days, they must obtain clearances as outlined above under “Which clearances are needed.†This is confusing as most of us do not carry a card that explicitly states one has passed a

Unfortunately, I have not been able to get a "in writing" answer to this question.

Update Jun 10, 2015 Governor Wolf waives fees for volunteers' background check. http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/06/gov_tom_wolf_waives_fee_for_vo.html Wolf announced today that $20 in fees for a child abuse clearance and state police criminal background check required by the Child Protective Services Law will be waived for volunteers who work with children. He also announced that the state Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania State Police will be reducing the cost of both the child abuse and criminal history record checks from $10 to $8 for all other appl

Surely someone must be mistaken.

Maybe hacked, maybe whacked ...too bad Sarbanes-Oxley would be a stretch. http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/probono/nonprofits_sarbanes_oxley.html Although most provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley apply only to public companies, at least two criminal provisions apply to nonprofit organizations: provisions prohibiting retaliation against whistleblowers and prohibiting the destruction, alteration or concealment of certain documents or the impediment of investigations. ... Section 1102 of the Act makes it a crime to "corruptly" alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal a record, document