sandspur

It all comes down to being reasonable. Unfortunately, not everyone is. I used to be more on one side than the other on this issue, but I have seen too much silliness with nothing to restrain it. The troop requires scouts show up in full uniform for a BOR (GOOD!) but then a BOR makes an issue out of a scout not wearing official scout socks under his official long scout pants (PULEEZE!) Troop established performance requirements for leadership positions -you dont to do the job you dont get full credit (GOOD!) but then 90% of the scout leaders do not meet expectations (PULEEZE!). Wear

Charter org is a church, but the minister is not really involved. More to the point I really dont want to make a big stink. My concern is that scouting.org gave no real positive guidance, but specifically seems to disallow attendance quotas. Yet the Adult leader in charge of that part of the program is gung ho on just that. I think something is wrong when most scouts get 2-4 months POR credit for a six month term. No counseling or effort to improve poor performance, just a grade at the end. However, changing this may well start a major row in the troop. I still think we are overboa

Interesting. Just transferred to a new troop/city. This troop asks skills questions (typically knots, first aid, orienteering) and re-examines even skills from lower ranks. About 25% of Scouts seem to take the BOR twice for skills deficiencies. I have never seen this before.

OK, looks like this has been discussed in the past but I do not see a direct answer to my question, so I ask the wisdom of the group: We all agree (at least I do!)that scout POR for Star and above require satisfactory performance by the scout in the POR. However, our troop in the past established specific guidelines intended to remove subjectivity. These include rather specific requirements to attend high percentages (75-90% depending on POR) of meetings, campouts etc. If the scout attends less, does not turn in self evaluations, does not attend troop leadership training etc. partial cred