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  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. 8 hours ago, TAHAWK said:

    Not an entirely new peoblem.  When I did my year as a "Teaching Assistant" (grader) in 1965-66, we were all issued a rubber door stop which was to be firmly driven under the edge of the open door before any conference with a female student  commenced in your office.  :o

    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 office.  It won't be much longer before the escort turns into escorts for their protection as well.

    obviously, more time is spent on dealing with these kinds of issues and less time with actually teaching.  Burn-out is becoming a rather common occurrence.  Good teachers are hard to find and even more difficult to keep.

    I would think that as this dynamic impacts other organizations, they too will feel the effects.  Face-to-face contact is becoming less frequent and it is most obvious between male and female,

  3. 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 instructed to tell their parents and then have them contact the teacher.

  4. 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 are accumulated on an individual tab and then referenced by the class roster tab and that tab is in the format the school wants and I just print it off at the end of the quarter and turn it in.  If a parent wants to see the progress of their child, I go to that child's tab and it's all there.  I print them out for Parent/Teacher Conferences. 

     

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  5. On 1/30/2018 at 11:42 AM, CalicoPenn said:

    I'm waiting for David French to answer his own question.  The only thing I get our of this opinion articles is that Conservatives are right and Liberals are wrong.  The shame of it is that the answer is probably somewhere in the middle.  The culture war isn't raging because one side is right and the other side is wrong (choose your sides according to your beliefs).  The culture war is raging because both sides are right and both sides are wrong and they can't seem to come together to discuss the issues with an open heart and open mind to get to a common understanding.

    So what is a man?

     

    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-write history to accommodate their beliefs, and it's pretty easy to do.  But trying to re-write scientific evidence is a bit more problematic.

    I can go along with a man saying he believes he is a woman just as easily as I can go along with a man saying he believes he is a paranoid schizophrenic.     Sure, he can promote feminine traits just as easily as he can promote psychological traits.  And when it comes to science, it's far easier to prove male/female than it is paranoid schizophrenia.

    I think the author is correct in the fact that male traits are under attack.  With the amount of medication used on our school children today, it is easy to see that the more aggressiveness of males is no longer acceptable. 

     

     

  6. 20 hours ago, Rock Doc said:

    I've seen adopted camp sites at several NC camps, including Raven Knob, Grimes, and Daniel Boone. Some get pretty elaborate, with shelters, power, engineered fire pits, hammock stands, and benches. These camps all have online registration for weekend camping, so it's easy to reserve your favorites.

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 stay in the old pack, he would probably quit.  I don't know for sure, he has not been exposed to that situation.  It would seem to me to be quite a public relations nightmare to try and pull it off without great confusion and hard feelings.  Now if a group of scouts would prefer a smaller pack experience, then that's fine that they organize their own pack, but with many of the parents around here, that's not something they would feel inclined to do.  With 2 other packs in the area, they would most likely just go to a different pack rather than start a new one.  If you're the only game in town, that wouldn't be an option and they just may find other youth programs that are easier to work with.

  10. 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. 

    The Scouting movement makes the neckerchief part of its uniform. ... The origin of the Scouting neckerchief seems to be in Robert Baden-Powell's participation in the Second Matabele War in 1896; where he worked with Frederick Russell Burnham, an American-born scout employed by the British Army.

    It would appear that these items were not appropriated from any ethnic nor concerned sources.

    If you look closely at pictures of the campaign hat, the BSA version is not the same as the British version.  :)

  11. 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.    I guess one has to focus in on what's important.  :)

  12. 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.

     

  13. 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 these organizations do their due diligence with background checks and field issues as they come up.  Yes, there's pedophiles in all youth programs that slip through the cracks.  Yet no amount of policy making has yet to be effective in curtailing the problem.  Making any sort of sexist policies which the scouts seem to be doing here only draws attention to the issue.  It would only be logical that in light of societal phobias, only female leadership be allowed to run the program.  And yet still, with the media filled with female sexual abuse of youth, maybe that won't last long.  And what's going to happen when everyone wakes up and realizes that both mom and dad are abusing their children.  One can't legislate morality.

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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?

  16. 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 Mrs. and I support their interests.

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