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Those are not mutually exclusive events. Our troop is a regular participant in ways large and small in our parish. Scout Sunday is an opportunity for the scouts and the parish to specifically recognize and celebrate scouting in the parish. Keep your scout sunday participation, expand on the others.

Here' a quick tutorial about how advancement should get recorded for a scout. The scout completes a rank and the troop submits a report, electronic or paper, to the council, and that rank is attached to the scout's member ID in the council/national database. BSA computer systems are not particularly modern or well built and so it's hard to be more precise than this in a description. Similarly, a scout completes a merit badge and (hopefully) turns in a blue card to his troop and the troop again records that through the council. In direct answer to your question, the original merit badge

Our troop wants to head towards Pictured Rocks in the UP of Michigan this summer, and we're looking for camping, and other activity suggestions while there. We're driving up from Ohio, and we'd especially like to find someplace in the upper part of the lower peninsula where we could lay our heads just for a quick night, even something like a church basement would work just so we could leave home in late afternoon and not try to drive it all in one shot . Thanks in advance.

As near as I can tell, although it's always initially challenged, the idea that each diocese in the US is a separate entity and not a part of a greater whole has held up through 20 or so diocesan bankruptcies, so to the extent that's a parallel most local councils should be able to stay out of this. The councils that are going to be in trouble are not so much those with bad facts as much as it is the councils in those states where they have made the recent statute of limitations changes. I doubt it is in anyone's interest to litigate this all the way through a trial and appeals process, so

I'm curious what you see as the bigger goal of your patrol competitions. Interpatrol competition can be a fine thing as a means to an end --- maybe to foster a sense of camaraderie within the patrol, maybe as an incentive to up the skills of some individuals, maybe just as a way to showcase skills that have been mastered. But there are other ways to accomplish all those things. If the result of holding competitions turns out to be something negative rather than something positive then maybe rethinking ways to accomplish your goals is in order. Coincidentally, we have the mother of a fo

Just FYI, Cub Packs have all had "3" in the thousands place for decades. Nobody uses it, nobody thinks they should use it. I don't think any Cub pack has found it to be annoying. Every single digit, double digit, and triple digit unit number you see is actually a short version of a four digit number. Troops of boys have "0" as their first digit; I forget what the number is for Crews.

Had this happen with two of my scouts, one while he was in the troop, one a couple years after the family moved, but he was still a scout in his new town. Most of what I have to say would only start an argument I have little interest in having. I will say that my own son struggles with this; he was hospitalized for it once. Lots of kids in there with him recovering after having their stomachs pumped or their wrists stitched back up. No one in the ward was recovering from a gunshot wound.

I've had several scouts from other troops join ours. I 'll ask why they're looking for a new troop. Most are variations on a theme of personality clash. I'm more interested in finding out what they're looking for in a troop and being sure they understand ours before they join. I leave it up to the scout and family to let the other troop know they're leaving. There's never been anything that I heard that I thought I needed to convey to the other troop. What am I going to tell them: that the scout and parents didn't like how they run advancement, or campouts, or planning, or whatever ?

I'm willing to triple your pay , now hop to it.

We use troopmaster not scoutbook. In TM you can just use the BOR date and it back fills all the other dates. At the times when we've been in between advancement coordinators and I've picked up the ball that's all I did. Our current AC makes a copy of the handbook page as part of the BOR process and enters each separate date. I don't see the need to do it, but I leave it up to her.

Vote for Bernie? I kid, I kid. AS DavidCO said, ER if you need to, otherwise take your cue from the parents. Many councils provide Health and Sickness coverage for injuries and illnesses arising from scouting activities. Check with your council to see if this applies. https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/alerts/insurance/

Prayer is not banned in schools, prayers led by the government, i.e. the school and its employees, are banned. To add a little historical perspective, OUR PRAYERS, that is Catholic prayers, were always banned. No child was allowed to say the Pater Noster or Ave Maria. Catholic children attending public schools were made to pray in a way that was inconsistent with the teachings of their own faith. The rise of Catholic parochial schools in the US was largely driven by a fear that attendance at public schools with their compulsory Protestant religious indoctrination would lead to a weaken

As it is, according to the article they've already made $6,000 and are on track to get to $10,000. I'm not sure trying to make more money would really be a good idea.

Does that actually answer the question? Gliders are not the same thing as a "hang gliders, ultralights, experimental aircraft, or nontethered hot-air balloons" It appears that "flying ... following completion of the Flying Plan Checklist" would not be prohibited, and after looking at the Flying Plan Checklist I don't see anything that prohibits flying in a glider so long as it conforms to the requirements for pilot and aircraft worthiness. Any aviation experts out there want to chime in?

NOTHING is better than Thin Mints. But I did order a box from my niece. Purchased on line through NYPenn Pathways council. I'll post my opinion when they arrive.

Consider the yurt a cabin not a tent. Whole troops with a full range of ages share cabins all the time. For the adults, do whatever separation makes everybody most comfortable, be it hanging tarps or the lone male sleeping in his truck.

Does a scout have any say? Only so far as the troop follows his suggestion. But there's no reason in this story to think the scout on his own took some of the proceeds of his sales and gave or ordered the giving of those funds to anyone else. This is a news story that has two facts: 1) a scout sold $15k popcorn, 2) some portion of the money raised from those sales was used to help a local nursing home. There is a causative relation between the two facts: in order for there to be money to give to the nursing home there had to be a sale of popcorn. There's nothing inaccurate about the st

I enjoy singing, people near me may not enjoy that as much, but my WB experience was definitely on the misused end of the spectrum.

Do I have to sing, or worry about silly totems, or pretend my shirt doesn't have a collar and have a uniform inspection? Because all the good leadership development programs I've attended contained none of those elements, and the in one that included them it seriously detracted from the program.

What you can do with the grant money is most dependent on what the terms of accepting the grant are. It's important that you understand that your unit is not an entity, it's a subset of your Chartering organization. When you are making the application for the grant it will be the CO making the application for the grant to be given to the CO. My interpretation of "solicit contributions for unit program" is you're not supposed to go out and just ask for cash donations. As mentioned above, most grants have some sort of quid pro quo or otherwise limiting condition that makes them somet

DavidCO is right, there is no accusation to be made, but it's unusual and you can inquire about it. I would email the dadASM and scout and say I just received nine MB cards from Scout and they're all the same merit badge counselor and all signed the same day, this is really unusual, could you tell me more about this. Then see what they have to say. Maybe an uncle or cousin is actually a MBC for the badges in the other council, and maybe there's a half decent explanation for it all. The best way to approach it is to refrain from making any kind of accusation or insinuation that anybody

You weren't in violation of any rules. From the GTSS "In most cases, each youth member will be under the supervision of a parent or guardian. In all cases, each youth participant is responsible to a specific adult." Your son was responsible to a specific adult, your friend. There are plenty of times when neither of Jimmy's parents can go camping so Johnny's parent says "I'll be responsible for Jimmy." And of course you can have one adult responsible for more than one Cub or else siblings would almost always be out of luck.

it doesn't depend on where the event is being held. It does depend on whether it is a scouting event. Every Chartering Organization agrees to "Conduct the Scouting program consistent with BSA rules, regulations, and policies." BSA has specific YPT rules, they're not onerous, they're not unreasonable, and they're not hard to follow or enforce. If you are participating in a scouting event, or any event outside your own home, you are implicitly agreeing to follow the rules of the event or to forfeit whatever right you might have to be there. You can't walk across the basketball court o

Even in the military there is a distinction drawn between lawful and unlawful orders, and my understanding from close relatives who are officers is that there is a lot more questioning and give and take than you would expect if your image is the drill sergeant from boot camp or OCS.

Strongly disagree, I've raised my kids to do what they're told if it's a good thing, the right thing, and the smart thing. Neither rules nor authority are self justifying, they're means to accomplish ends, and if they're not accomplishing those ends they're due no great deference.