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While the two links may not be political, have you read the comments at them? Also there are other websites picking up the news and are making a big political statement out of it. a lot of folks do not like the BSA, and think the membership standards should change again to include girls, without making a similar demand of GSUSA. I'll be honest, I have mixed emotions on this. One one hand, I've seen sisters do the meetings and activities with their brothers as Cub Scouts is Family oriented. They just couldn't earn the awards. And I have been a Sea Explorer, and an Explorer and Venturing l

So when will the Girl Scouts accept cisgendered males into their organization? Seriously though, if the parents wanted the same activities for thei daughters', then why not voltunteer to be a leader and take them camping?

One more question, who buys the POR patches for your unit: each Scout or the unit? Growing up, the troop did a ceremony and issued the POR patches. If you already had the POR patch, you were expected to reuse it. Here, it seems the Scouts are expected to get their patches. It can be challenging for some since the nearest Scouting distributer is about 45 minutes in one direction.

Kinda. Girls can't officially be Cub Scouts, but they can camp and do the activities with their siblings. Cub Scouts is family camping, and there was a VERY big bruhaha when the planners for one major event didn't take into account of the family camping fact of Cub Scouts, and didn't anticipate the sisters who accompanied their brothers to the event.

I agree with you, decisions should be on the local level. However, I;m betting national is getting involved because of some of the things done at the local level. I've personally seen 1 district advancement chairman (DAC) try to refuse a Scout his Eagle because he didn't personally approve the service project. Project was approved by the DAC at the time and completed prior to the BOR DAC even became a leader. Only a threat of an appeal was able to get me Eagle. On the opposite extreme, I saw one man who was not granted his Eagle by the EBOR, and did appeal it to national. National grante

Mess is an understatement. I think one new leader said "fiasco." But the Scouts elected their SPL and PLs and have to live with it. Forgot to add, Only the Troop Guide position was appointed last nite. That's becasue the NSP needed MAJOR help preparing for the upcoming camp out.

Ok, just curious how does your unit conduct unit elections? Specifically do you allow folks to nominate themselves for the positions, or must they be nominated by someone else? I ask because I witnessed my son's troop elections for the first, and it was "interesting." Folks could not nominate themselves, they had to be nominated by someone else. In some cases those nominated didn't want the job, but felt pressure or obligated to run anyway. In other cases some who were nominated, felt obligated to nominate the person who nominated them. Long election. Then, when the SPL and PLs were

PLs #1 and #3 were teaching knots, with a few others one nite, then another nite they had their Tenderfoot BORs. Unfortunately PL#2 is in a situation that if dad doesn't have him the nite of a meeting, mom won't bring him. So he only comes every other week. Not a good situation.

Update: still waiting to hear form the troop committee about my offer. No worries though. I'm there for the Scouts no matter what. HOWEVER I'd love to strangle the SPL at the moment I've been workign with him for a while now. I've given him some advice,gave an example of how a meeting should look like when he asked for help with backpacking, talked about planning and communication, etc. For the past month, the meetings were supposed to focused on T-2-1 Scoutcraft skills, and instead have focused solely on knot tying. It's driving some of the scouts nuts. I talked to him last week, sugge

Yes, National asked ALPS Mountaineering to change the program's name. I'm registered for the program, and got an email about the name change when it occured. I love ALPS!

Small groups of 6-10 Scouts that get together ON THEIR OWN, select their own patrol leader, and work together as a team. They work, and play, together; help each other out, encourage and teach each other. They can do their own day activities on their own.

Once upon a time, there was a backpacking WB; one of my good friends took it and loved it. It was at Philmont. I believe there was also a canoeing done at N Tier or Land Between the Lakes, when it was a national HA base.

@@Hedgehog, If my original post sounded harsh, I apologize as that was not the case. I think those topics ARE needed for new leaders with with little to no expereince. I know some of those topics have been taught at UoS locally. My concern is that back in the day, it was expected that First Class Scouts had the knowledge, skills, and abilities in those topics and could teach those courses. Sadly, I am seeing more and more "one and done" Scouts. My son's troop is not perfect. there are things I'd like to change, and some things that need to change. But one thing I like is that th

I actually got in trouble when I was a DE because I camped a lot. In addition to district and council camporees, I did OA events and IOLS training, or whatever the outdoor portion was called at the time. But I was single at that point. Like ProScouter06 above, once you start spending 12 to 16 hour days, longer if you are assigned summer camp duties, you need time to away from Scouting. Especially if you have family. BUT there are pro's out there who care and go above and beyond. I have a picture to prove Hell froze over because a SE was in work clothes and actually doing cheerful servic

In the 20 months I worked as a DE, 9 of my coworkers quit, most within 9 - 12 months of starting (one after 3 weeks via phone from the emergency room when the DFS told him to leave against medical advice and come to work), a finance director quit within a year, and a field director with 7-10 years in the council. One district had 4 DEs within 21 months. After I left, my immediate replacement left within 3 months, and when they found a DE to replace him, he left after a year due to a nervous breakdown. Things got a lot better when the SE and DFS left. The FD who came about about a month

SCOUTNET will automatically drop a leader once YPT is expired. ALSO I am told, repeat TOLD do not know for a fact, that if someone's YPT will expire in the upcoming charter year, it will drop that individual from the recharter process. HOWEVER once they go online and do YPT, the name will reappear on the online rechartering process. NOW I got an email stating that my YPT will expire soon and that I would need to redo it in order to recharter.

@@JoeBob, How about this. Only what is in their pockets and a survival kit. Make them stay at the amnesty blanket for a while until contraband is given up. give them a series of bearings, compass or general 4 points, and instead of a marker, they get items for the weekend:, tarp, rope, garbage bags, cans of food, water, etc.

@@ProScouter06, Welcome back from the Dark Side.

Well last nite was interesting. We had two, unannounced visitors. One was a Webelos, the other was a Scout looking for a new troop. Bad news was that things got changed on us by the CO at the last minute. Long story short, we had to do an impromptu service project for the church. I'm very happy we did it because the troop needed to do something to thank the church. We eventually got around to patrol corners and the work that really needed to be done for the camp out. Good news is that the transferring Scout likes the fact that we camp 10 months of the year, do a lock in 1 month, and d

As a former professional, I can sympathize greatly with local pros. It is a tough, demanding job. I've seen too many pros sacrifice their families and health. I've had friends and coworkers have mental breakdowns and other stress related health issues because of the job. I have had friends get divorced because of the time away from their families. I was fortunate in that my wife of 2 months gave me an ultimatum. Several of my friends had wives either walk out on them, or kick them out. Worse one was my friend who put his wife through law school, then was served divorce papers by her after he

You'd be surprised. First time we did any type of backpacking was essentially plop camping. Only a few of the Scouts have backpacks, mostly those going to Philmont, So the troop plopped it. HOWEVER, all meals had to be backpacking meals and only stoves if used were backpacking stoves.Anyone going to Philmont had take down camp, and backpack the trail, while the others worked on hiking requirements.

I can see this for new leaders, but Star Scouts? They should have had these topics covered already. I know T-2-1 requirements covers all of these topics, and cannot see how a one day course can expand those skills. MONTHLY CAMPING (emphasis) is the way to do it. HOWEVER, if the course is designed to help the Scouts TEACH these skills at the troop level, I'm good. BUT it better be hands on.