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Basementdweller: I'm sorry, I did not clarify well enough. We agreed to reconvene in a month, we did not agree to pass him through in a month. I do hope that the weekly SMC's will help him out with that though. I am also a bit curious as to where he is picking this up, perhaps I should suggest this to the SM for the SMC's. Click23: Thank you for pointing this out, I had actually found it before the BOR took place as well. I did not see a lack of appeal process for first class or lower however so thank you for that! As far as giving him a letter, I am not sure we will need to because he a

I wanted to let you guys know how we put the advise to work: 1. The SM had a SM conference prior to the BOR. Informed the scout that the BOR would address this with him, he decided to go through with it. 2. The scout was asked if he felt he was living the Oath and Law and immediately said no and did a good job of explaining why. We counseled a bit on how his actions effect others but informed him we were not trying to punish him, but wanted him to understand the importance of living the oath and law. 3. We asked the scout if he felt he was ready to advance in rank- scout said he WANTS t

Our pack does rank advancements at Blue and Gold every year. The Blue and Gold Banquet is a celebration of the founding of the boy scouts and as such, we make it a REALLY BIG deal! We have a sit down dinner and do cake auctions and silent auctions, we even get a DJ for the scouts to have a good time dancing after blue and gold. We invite the families out for this and usually have the mayor, police chief and fire chief in attendance as well. If we have arrow of light and bridging ceremonies, we have to OA ceremonies team out to do these and it gives the younger scouts something to look forward

Thank you all, I really appreciate the input you have given me. I think you guys are thinking along the same line as I was, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't over reacting. I will be taking this advice and will hit heavily on the BOR how he is living the scout oath and law... if he does not bite, then I will bring it up. I really liked the suggestion to meet monthly to see if he is improving on living the scout oath and law. I just do not feel that I can let this behavior slide by because first class is a very important rank and by the time a scout is first class they should fully unders

Hi everyone, I am new to these forums but will admit that I have trolled the site quite a bit in the past! I started an account today because I have come to a dilemma and would like some advise on how to proceed. I am the advancement chair in our troop and run most of the BORs. We have a fairly new troop which will be a year old next month and our highest rank in the troop is currently a life. We have a 12 year old scout in our troop who will be up for his first class BOR tomorrow. Problem is that he has been acting out significantly on facebook lately. We have received more than a few co