Jump to content

Pselb

Members
  • Content Count

    105
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Pselb

  1. As a parent I pay my son's annual registration and any costs pertaining to an activity he wishes to participate in. At the annual scout banquet, we do get a push for funding the program as a whole. Because this does not deal with my sons pack, I always assume it was an option to pass on. If the Boy Scouts are not charging enough to cover the cost of the program, increase the annual fees to cover those costs. Then let everyone decide on their own if the program is worth the cost.
  2. That may be well and good for the 1960's, but in today's world in order to be safe, no conferences are held with a student without another teacher and/or parent present.,, male or female. Your office is where you go to get away from students, not counsel them. A rubber door stop defense is useless when you get sued. If there is a classroom disruption and a student needs to leave the class, a full written report is made. No taking students out to the hallway to reprimand them. If a student needs removal, the procedure is to notify the office, and have someone else escort them to the o
  3. And maybe it's just today's society and as the sides get drawn, the old wounds from 30 years ago get dragged up and tossed into the ring to atone for any and all unforeseen arguments in the making.
  4. I see it at school every day and it's getting worse. Group dating is the norm for those who wish to stay out of trouble. Teacher/student relationships have deteriorated as well. One-on-one meetings in the teacher's office don't happen anymore and confidentiality is a thing of the past. The only time the office door gets shut is when you are not in the office. Communication is stilted and formal and "hanging out and/or having fun" is no longer a consideration. One angry student and your career is over along with everything else you deem important. If a student has an issue they are instruc
  5. I figured this out a long time ago. Six weeks after Groundhog Day is the Spring Solstice. It has nothing to do with winter weather. That's just the assumption people are led to believe.
  6. Any time I have done books for an organization, I ask what they want and then develop an Excel document that easily gets to that. I use Excel for everything I want to track. All my grading (I'm a teacher) is done with Excel and any organization I worked for I've done the same thing. Get a copy of the current report, create a tab of just that report. Everything else done on other tabs totals into that singular report. The Report Tab is what gets printed off for the meeting. Anyone needs to see detail, that is a print out of the tab in question. In my case each student's grades ar
  7. The push for girls to be allowed to be more aggressive (masculine) in their interests is not a "bad" concept. It would seem that society is accepting of this, but not for males who are by nature this way.
  8. I have just begun to read this thread and I'm sure they're plenty of debate further on down. But it would seem that it isn't a "us and them" issue between liberal and conservative factions in as much as it is an acceptance vs. denial of science. One can give concrete proof of the differences between male and female and yet there seems to be an inordinate amount of varying statements of belief overriding the scientific reality. Sure someone can think, believe and say they are of a different sex, but it doesn't change the facts. As a history teacher I know there are those that like to re-wri
  9. I never was a scout, but it sounds like there are more amenities than the traditional state park. The family and I camp, but we prefer a more primitive opportunity.
  10. Have someone other than your religious faith, put on your religious regalia, and have them demonstrate your form of worship for others who are not of your faith and then they come and say, it is being done respectfully and with all sincerity. Would you believe them? I have never seen any Order of the Arrow "performances" (for lack of a better word), but I'm thinking that no matter how hard they try, there's going to be a big disconnect along the way and therein lies the rub.
  11. Next year my boy will be in Webelos, I'm sure his experience will be restricted due to the fact that my wife and I don't participate. I have no idea how many others out there feel as I do, but I'm sure there are many single parents and professional parents that don't have the time to participate in a youth program. When he gets to the point where he will not be able to attend activities without a parent involved, he will lose interest and move on to other activities that are geared just for him.
  12. Or..... just don't volunteer as a Den Leader and avoid the whole drama. As a paid professional teacher, there are enough risks to go around, not much sense in volunteering for more.
  13. My son is in a rather large pack and I assume that the policy where parents and scouts are the ones that determine which pack to attend would hold true during a situation like this At least that is what we were told when our son was looking for a pack to join. He had the option of attending 3 different packs in the area. Now if a pack were to divide because of it's size, wouldn't the same policy hold true? I would think it difficult to convince scouts and their parents the "rules have changed. If my son's friends were told they were to stay in the new pack but all of his friends had to s
  14. History of the Campaign Hat. The current drill sergeant hat evolved from the 1883 campaign hat. That headgear was a modified (flat brim versus upturned brim) Montana Peak, which was adopted for wear by the army in 1911, and abandoned in 1942. Boy Scout of America are the only non-military organization in the US authorized to wear US military uniforms. Sea Scouts is the last remnant of this. Originally Boy Scouts wore the same uniform as the soldiers of WW I eventually replacing buttons so as to indicate BSA rather than the uniform. Collar brass was also changed from US to BSA. Th
  15. My wife and I were invited over for dinner to an elderly couple's home. We were served a venison roast. In the conversation that ensued, gentleman told me he had been hunting deer for over 50 years. Shot only once and never learned how to track because the furthest he had to go was about 10 yards. I complimented him on his marksmanship. He chuckled and said he was a terrible shot. He just researched the area, found a well traveled path and sat for hours until a deer walked within 20' of him and as long as he got the gun up to his shoulder without the deer seeing him, it was a done deal.
  16. Every soldier is a candidate for the Medal of Honor, but I don't think they all put that down on their resume.
  17. Of course they do, but they all judge on different dynamics about others. I my case, I judge on character first, everything else is not as important. At least to me anyway. For example, my son happens to like his den leader, so I'm okay with him participating. Same for my daughters in their interest areas. If any of them come to me with concerns about the people in their programs, the wife and I will steer them into other areas for them to get excited about.
  18. I might be in a rather small minority in today's society, but I don't get all that worked up about someone's celebrity, political, or social status. I much rather focus on a person's character and no amount of titles, stardom, accomplishments or position in life makes a bit of difference in how I may "judge" them.
  19. In the past 3 years since my son joined cub scouts, I have become increasingly concerned about this whole moral/ethical issue. It would seem scouts are going co-ed, which is no big deal, but the morality of sexism standards of the leaders and the open sexism of the children draws my attention to just exactly what it is the scouts are ethically adhering to? We have male teachers coaching girl sports in public schools and there doesn't seem to be much fear mongering going on there. Male clergy might only have females in their church youth group. Same for other youth organizations. All the
  20. A scout is trustworthy. I may be reading this wrong, but the double standard explicitly states male leaders are not. My daughters in Girl Scouts do not have male leaders for whatever reason. I guess they don't want male leaders so they don't accept them. I have been hassled to be a leader in the Boy Scout program, but not for the Girl Scouts, YMCA, church, sports teams or any other youth organization. What with the Boy Scouts? My wife is not bothered by the Girl Scouts or any other youth program either but gets hounded by the cub scouts all the time.
  21. My son is only in Cub Scouts so he's exposed to just a few of the concepts connected to the Native American experience. But from my limited understanding of scouting, is it only the American scouts that do the Native American things or do other scouters around the world appropriate local legend and lore?
  22. I have children (2 daughters and 1 son) enrolled in the two programs. I don't hear any Yeas or Nays about what's going on with the programs from any of them. As long as they keep asking to go, the Mrs. and I support their interests. The subject of these programs do not come up in family conversation unless something special is going on that we as parents need to know about. We as parents are not and have no interest in either programs. The interests we all share as a family are not related to either scout programs. As I have already mentioned, as long as the kids keep asking to go, the
  23. The sad part about it all is other groups are now emphasizing outdoor programs and are more successful at it than the BSA. That's not a good sign for BSA.
  24. That requirement is also in the Webelos Scouting Adventure module. Maybe the Webelos book has more information on that.
×
×
  • Create New...