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Do what is best for the YOUTH- always. Trust your gut here.
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Roll with it. Begs the question on that disclaimer "Youth who are not registered in the unit may not accompany parents or siblings in camping programs of Scouts BSA, Venturing, and Sea Scouting." If the intent there is to not have non-age appropriate siblings (that is to say, they can't join the unit because they are only say 8 years old), then why not say that? Otherwise, if you had a 12 year old register Scout and their 14 year old non-BSA registered brother (or sister, if they are both female and we're talking about a GT) were to attend, you'd jsut take the "encourage to become" exception t
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How sure do you feel about "Your insurance coverage was exactly the same"? Have you asked your Council that question? When a new youth comes to attend a troop meeting, we spend time talking with the youth and parent about how we operate, expectations we have, etc. Usually that gets the parent to give us feedback on what they see as areas we need to be aware of- whether it is allergies, is their child introverted, do they tend to gravitate to kids their own age, or are they more inclined to want to cling to adults, etc. Can't say it is a common thing, but we have had conversations with par
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Not having time to gain some working knowledge about a youth can be problematic. We had a youth join several years ago, and went camping with us like their second week in the troop. Saturday afternoon the kid was off the wall (amongst other troubling things, he was making suicidal ideation comments to the other Scouts). Come to find out, med form was inaccurate, the kid is on meds, and parent did not say anything to us nor sent his meds with him. It's not a situation that we would want to take on that someone off the street comes on an overnight with us. I couldn't name one troop in our Distri
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DEI is an acronym for Don't Expect Improvement
HashTagScouts replied to Mrjeff's topic in Order of the Arrow
The issue I took on this thread was "segregated events". NOAC was not segregated. Were there optional sessions intended not as "put on a pedestal" but rather as social events? Yes. And the point of those - can't speak for the sessions, as I didn't intend them, but understood the context of the planning- were to bring together individuals attending NOAC together and to hopefully learn how the OA (and BSA in general) could better include them into the program. Female youth in particular are an issue that our Lodge, and those in our Section, have had issues to contend with to assimilate them into -
We wouldn't allow a youth not in Cubs to attend any activity other than a troop meeting (and, depending on the agenda for a troop meeting, there potentially could be things we wouldn't let them participate in- knife making night, probably not; knot skills, OK) without being actively registered through the troop. They don't really know us, don't really know our expectations (and neither does the parent), and we don't necessarily know enough about the youth.
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We could flex the six MBs sewed to the long sleeve shirt exception to pants I guess...
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Question about local group requirements
HashTagScouts replied to Mismatched_Socks's topic in New to Scouting?
Correct. The FAQ here is helpful on what positions are permissible: Youth Protection and Barriers to Abuse FAQs | Boy Scouts of America (scouting.org) -
Sounds reasonable to co-operate, at least for a time, and that may allow folks to not get overly worked up about "the change"- if they understand it is potentially short-term, there could be less of a feeling of dread. I've been through a Lodge merger when councils merged, and the first year was a miserable experience of (mainly adults) negativity. I wish I had bought a few dozen copies of Who Moved My Cheese? and handed them out at the beginning. You mentioned trying to make equal use of both schools. I would just do everything you can to make a calendar about what nights you are at wh
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I would recommend talking with the leadership of the new unit and solicit advice on who her contact should be going forward for the whole process as though she hadn't actually begun. Councils can have different procedures they desire be followed on the whole approval process (our Council requires the youth contact the District Eagle coordinator with a rough outline- similar to what is in the project proposal section of the workbook- after meeting with their Coach but before engaging to obtain any signatures, for example). As much of a pain as this can be right now, she will be working with a w
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Learned today from my Council- this is new National policy that will roll out this fall. YPT will need to be done every year by every volunteer going forward, it will no longer have a two year expiration.
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Scouter with WAY too much involvement.
HashTagScouts replied to Maboot38's topic in Open Discussion - Program
I believe what @InquisitiveScouter is referring to is what is in the official roster in ScoutNet (my.scouting.org) versus what is in SB. In other words, what positions is this person actually registered as through Council?- 30 replies
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