Eagle94-A1

I need to clarify, my last comment was regarding online MBs, BORs, everyone getting Eagle etc. Not DEI. I admit I am middle of the road when it comes to DEI. I know our country's past, but I also know the strides we have made. Do we still need improvement? Absolutely. Without growth you die. That is why I like the focus on the Scout Oath and Law. If we were to live by the Scout Oath and Law, I do not believe the challenges we are seeing would exist. Sadly not everyone in uniform is a true Scout.

I am a lifer. Started as a Cub, earned Eagle and aged out. Was a Sea Scout for a bit while serving as an ASM. Not only did i not leave the movement, but I also worked for it. In my professional opinion, coming from both my training as an educator and experience working with youth for over 25 years the program had deteriorated. Instead of quality, folks want quantity. Youth want challenges. Youth need to make mistakes and learn the hard way, albeit in a safe environment. Youth need responsibilities. This is what makes them grow and allows them to make ethical decisions. How do we hel

Do any legacy units use their original numbers?

Officially this is still the case. HOWEVER in reality many boys and girls troops are so intermingled regarding supplies, Scouters, etc, they are in essence 1 troop. National has OK'd the fact that troops can do joint activities if they have the same CO. So you have joint troops' meetings, camp outs, summer camps, service projects, etc. And some troops have point blank said they will be two separate troops on paper only. They will do everything together as if they were one big troop.

The first digit of 4 digit number use to designate Troop, Ship, Pack, and Crew. 0 was troops, 2 Ships, 3 packs, and I do not remember Crews. Posts also had their own number, but I have not been active on that side and do not know if that is the case with Learning for Life. I know for a fact that there will be opposition among my committee over changing the number. We no longer have a pack, and a local pack was searching for a home. I was all for the pack keeping the number. Committee was opposed. If they came to our CO, they would need to change their number.

So I found out that in my council will be having a meeting in January to discuss council mergers. My question is simple: What happens to units that have the same number? I ask because my troop will be celebrating 100 years next month. Long history that I would not like to lose.

Our legal system is in need of major tort reform. When it is cheaper to pay a fine than fight for your innocence, you need legal reform. When anyone can sue anyone without any penalty, you need legal reform. Anyone heard of the MS optometrist who was sued by one of his dad's former patients? Dad was a "Sr." and an OB/GYN that past away. Several years after dad died, Jr. who was an optometrist, receives notice that he was having a malpractice suit from one of dad's former patients. Long story short, Jr. incurred heavy legal expenses because the plaintiff's lawyer refused to acknowledge h

Regarding girls troops, initially the local girls' troop was forced to do joint activities due to lack of gear and adults. Now that they equal their brother troop, they prefer to do things on their own. In fact, this year they are doing two different summer camps the same week. This is something the girls wanted as they believe the boys are holding them back.

Depending upon the diocese, Catholic Churches may or may not be rechartering. I know of 3 diocese that stated no more chartering of Scout units. Locally we have a unit about to fold, and the Catholic Church, which wanted to reestablish Scouting in the parish, now said no.

And as I have stated before, not everyone has the financial resources to be in Scouting as prices climb. I do not know your financial situation, but we have folks who qualify as Lower Class in my unit. Right Now I have 1 definite Scout who is dropping due to the increases, and I may have more. I will be trying to figure out how to help them remain. If $50 is not a big deal to you, I would gladly accept a donation to help cover a Scout's dues.

That is not reasonable for everyone. Are parents charged for attending little league practices and games?

Rates vary from council to council. While the national fee is fixed, councils can add their own fees as well up to an equal amount of the national fee. So whereas Malreaux and Inquisitive Scouter are paying $50, mine is closer to $90. That on top of two boys at $107 each, and and I am paying over $300 in registration alone. While some may say it is cheap, for many in my neck of the woods, including myself, it is a lot. Combine with the additional expenses: summer camp, food, gas, equipment, etc, and I am slowly being priced out of Scouting. Part of me is glad Oldest is not continuing as an ASM

I know back in the day, DEs were required to visit each IH and talk with them about the unit(s) they charter. One DE I know did 3 such visits until he was reprimanded for "wasting your time visiting."

That is a relatively new change in Charter Agreements. Within the past 5 years if memory serves. Prior to that time, it belong to the CO. And with the way the pros are running BSA into the ground would you trust them?

The research behind FIRST CLASS,FIRST YEAR, has some flaws in it. The first flaw I recognized in it as a 15 year old Life Scout was that the research has no mention of activity levels of the units in the research. Not a one. If you got an active unit, you will have retention and advancement. As Hillcourt said, "OUTING is three-fourths of ScOUTING." And if you are active they will stay. And as as Lord Baden-Powell said, " Advancement should happen as naturally as a suntan, it just happens in the outdoors." The other thing flaw was including LDS units in the research. As I discovered late

In 1972, Skill Awards came out and were required for Tenderfoot through First Class. Skill Awards focused on all of the skills in one specific area, and were immediate recognition because you still had the tenure requirements for Tenderfoot through First Class ranks. If you finished the Skill Awards needed for rank advancement before the tenure requirement was completed, you usually worked on the next batch of Skill Awards while you waited. In August 1989, "OPERATION FIRST CLASS" came about. Skill Awards were done away with, and the requirements spread out through the Tenderfoot through F

Age should not be a matter.

Could the $500,000 per POC fine could be used to add more money for the victims?

Can they also be fined and/or pay for this case forfeited and applied to the victims? I'm all for imprisonment, but would rather hit them where it really hurts, money, and benefit the victims.

Record retention laws vary not only from location to location, but also what type of record and the information on it. It can vary from 3 to 50 years, and some records longer. Our COR is a records retention guru. When we purged our records, he told us to keep everything 7 years and under. Anything 8 years or older could be purged.

I would call it a sloppy use of words IF no one at National was informed about this. HOWEVER, RichardB, and others, were notified of the error as early as February 2018 when the ban went into effect. Yet the untruth, fib, hoax, deception, misinformation, disinformation, misinformation, fabrication, etc remains. Wait, it will come. In my experience, National will start a ban for one activity, and slowly move on to others.

Here is the chart. https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/healthsafety/pdf/680-028.pdf Lions ( ages 5 or 6) and Tigers (ages 6 or 7)are prohibited from using hand held paint brushes (that will put a damper on those packs that do PWD workshop nights where everyone is working on their PWD cars, including painting them in some cases). And only Webelos and older can use paint rollers.

@RichardB I know better than to not follow the rules. So I do my best to keep up with BSA policies to the point that I have often had to tell my council's professional staff what is and is not allowed by BSA as they are not aware of the latest rules. My biggest problem is that BSA continues to break the first point of the Scout Law, Trustworthy, with the repeated lie in the FAQ found here https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/prohibited-activities-faqs/ , that "Dodgeball has never been an authorized activity in Scouting." As I have shared with you and others repeatedly THA

I agree, it National wants units to know about it, it needs to be in the G2SS and other unit accessible literature, not in NCS books that most units never see. Theoretically, the councils are suppose to pass along the info. At least in my current council, it is usually the volunteers who are telling the council what the rules are. Heck my district was informed at camporee that about 85% of the skits, the majority of which have been around forever, are not longer allowed according to new NCS guidelines .

No, the #1 used camp is the old summer camp that has turned "rustic" with cap improvements being done by the OA and individual units. Until 2019 that camp actually subsidized the main camp via the usage and logging. In 2019, it was closed for 9 months while they repaired a road. Council tried to say that camp cost nearly $70/camper to maintain, but used the 2019 camping numbers, which only had 3 months of camping due to the road, as well as the capital expense of the road included in figuring out the $70/ Camper. In fact another council camp was only used once during 2019, and that was becaus