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  1. So, I guess we found out that they're going to start "Varsity Scouting" programs in our district, and apparently planning to recruit from currently existing troops. I'm pretty new at the SM game, our second year began this past August, and most of the Scouts in our troop are younger. But what I'm worried about is that as we develop as a troop, if our older Scouts disappear off to these Varsity programs, how are we going to develop? And what experiences are the older boys going to miss out on? -CL
  2. Interesting thread, oddly timed. I'm an SM for a newer troop (August was the beginning of our 2nd years). We're mostly a younger troop, about half are 11, the other half spread pretty evenly in the 12-15 range (well, maybe the older group is weighted younger a bit, but we do have two fifteen year olds). So, we've been asked if we're going to provide two Scouts for the OA "ordeal" in Nov. I myself was only a Scout for about year, in a very rural area, so never heard of OA or any of that stuff back then, don't know much about it now. For the record, as David said, they do self-desc
  3. I am a new SM for a new troop. We are a small troop, about 16-17 scouts, about eight or nine of which are new-ish (just came up from Webelos), and seven or eight who have anywhere from six months to three years of scouting, but none with leadership experience. We've been trying to follow what we interpreted the Scoutmaster Handbook was saying, with six or so of the older seven or eight boys in a "regular" patrol, and the younger boys in a "newbie patrol" with the PL & APL being selected from the older scouts (and by older, we're talking twelve vs. ten, right), assigned by the PL of th
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