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What is really weird is a movement like Atheism, which seems like a very simple thing can be taken over by fanatic zealots and be almost destroyed. The Atheism / Skeptic movement is but a ghost of its former self from a few years back and is now more about feels then facts. The Linux operating system has been taken over by anti-cis-white-males activists. . . Activists from the feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities have been trying to force the Linux project to join the Contributor Covenant since at least 2015. The Contributor Covenant is an agreement to implement a special Code of

What we got out here is a case of some really awful people that are using Wood Badge as a super secret elite club to bond with others of the same mind. They are adding stuff that is not suppose to be part of Wood Badge and they are not even teaching the Wood Badge program as written. Awful people attract more awful people and you end up with a mess like there is in at my council. Around here round tables are just things that the "in" people go to to talk about the people they hate. The problem here is really the people and not the program, we have awful people messing up a

In my area the Wood Badgers make other Wood Badgers sing for their lost stuff and the Wood Badgers that run NYLT teach the NYLT leaders to make the scouts sing for their stuff. I have expressed my objects to such hazing many times, only to fall on deaf ears. The worst case of this was at the last camp-o-ree I went to. A high level Lady Wood Badger, tried to make an Arrow of Light cub scout to dance and sing to get back his lost medical inhaler, at evening flags, before I LOUDLY PUT A STOP TO IT and took the young scout aside to explain what they tried to do was very un-scout like,

We had a vote at a committee meeting to stay all boy out of respect to the Girl scout troop in our area that we were good friends with. If a female leader wishes to rise up start a girl pack or mixed pack I am sure our CO would be fine with it. The rep will be at the roundup tonight. The nearest co-ed girl pack is 50 miles away.

So. . . our pack and troop are having a round up tonight. Our district rep demanded to oversee and approve our ad, flyers and news stories write ups. She also went out to all the schools in the area to promote the round up. We have a small troop of boys and a small pack of boys. Last night the rep contacts us and says, "I recruited a whole bunch of girls for you! They will be coming to your round up tomorrow night. Be ready to sign them up!" So, in our area the district is trying to force girls into boy only packs, I never read anywhere that was part of the plan. The lady

Did you know 47% of women that recently graduated college have a job that does not require a degree, with an average salary of $37,330, and an average student debt of $39,400. . . . and 37% of men are in the same boat.

I’m sure people who take polo lessons or sailing lessons earn a lot more on average too, Does that mean you should send your kids to sailing school? Young people feel they must go to college because if they don't they are in trouble, they are told they doomed to a life of being poor if they do not go to college. Costs are outrageously high, but you pay them because you have to, and because the system makes it easy to borrow massive amounts of money. The nightmare begins when you can't get out of the debt. Since government lenders have pretty much unlimited power to collect on studen

Peter Thiel thinks college is a scam.

Elon Musk, knows college is generally bad, he knows, he has a degree. I went to college for 3 years and learned how bad it was first hand. Here is what Elon thinks. . .

People will tell you college is an experience that inspires you to strive for more, to be your best. But in reality, it creates a workforce of mindless drones, set to take orders from the corporate hierarchy. It does not create the Steve Jobs of the world. College is not for people that have problems with authority, who believe their way is the best way. But also readily look for mentors and others to help them grow as a person. For those who seek out problems to solve and have an unquenchable thirst to continually learn about the world around them. And most importantly, for those who kno

A whole lot of women are in big trouble, 1 out to 5 are taking psychotropic medication for metal disorders (twice the rate that young men do) Many women are graduating from colleges with worthless degrees with no hope of finding a job and an insane amount of college loan debt that they must pay back. Too many times a college degree is a curse and not a blessing. I know a woman who was a theatre major, when she could not find a job, so she went back to school. She ended up with a Ph.D. in Theatre and over $600,000 in student loan debt, she is currently teaching high school theater in

We would be a lot better off is we based hiring people and college admissions on merit and merit alone.

More and more men do not want to go to college, they see it as a waste of time and not worth the cost. Women keep going because it is drilled into them they MUST GO TO COLLEGE!!! More and more businesses see most degrees as mostly worthless and now looking for people with ability and not a piece of paper that says they are smart. I found out in 1987 that college was a waste of time, when my UCSC Computer Engineering program was de-accredited at the beginning of my 3rd year and the most complex thing they ever "taught" me was Ohm's law, something I mastered in 3rd grade. An

Yes, there is a war on boys and men and it is horrible. The same people that are waging war on boys are also waging war on girls and women. Boys are being treated like toxic monsters that need to be drugged into submission and girls are brain washed into thinking they are helpless victims that can't do anything on their own and require special help to get anywhere in life and men are the eternal enemy and oppressors of women. Back when I was a kid, boys and girls liked one another and got along pretty well. My Boy Scout troop sold Christmas Trees along side the Girl Scouts and

As a member of GSUSA and BSA, I think girls will do fine in a BSA program, it is a fine program for boys and girls. What I do see going haywire are the adults, I see adults destroying programs in GSUSA and BSA because of selfish reasons, power trips, and sheer stupidity. What I see going wrong is not the fault of the program or the youth. The biggest problem is adults coming in with their own ideas on how to run things that go against the methods and aims of scouting and create a boring adult run program that drives the kids away in droves.

A Girl Scout troop is only as good as its leaders make it. There is one book that every new Girl Scout leader should read, it covers things that GSUSA training does a poor job covering: Starting a Troop: A Guide for New Girl Scout Leaders by Rae Brewer If you know any new Girl Scout troop leader, get them this book. There are things in there they need to know to have a successful troop. It was a real help to our troop.

What do you do when you have a group of boys that have no interest in a patrol method and just want to hang out with their buddies and have fun and just want to leave all the leadership stuff and planning to the adults. . . even though the adults are coaching and training the boys to lead the program? Sometimes when boys are allowed to "do whatever they want" (within the limits of safety, finances, and remaining in the game of scouting) they can sometime choose the easy, but boring path, and then complain about how they never get to do anything fun. Maybe they choose the easy boring p

The BSA best training I ever had as just sitting around with old timer scout masters and newly minted scout masters at summer camp talking for hours about the game of scouting, and life in general. We talked about the fun times and bad times, what worked and what didn't. Oh, the stories!

We run a scout led, adult mentored troop.

"We can and must work together as one team, old and young, across generations." "Young people respect and are willing to learn from well-intentioned people of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. By using the skills that we are learning here at Wood Badge, we will be able to work together to find solutions. The Millennials are open to partnership—be sure that YOU are. They have much to share and to say, so listen to them. Find your shared vision and make it a reality. Scouting tomorrow will be as different from today as we are now from 30 years ago. Together we can cr

Wood Badge Day Four: Generations in Scouting (Troop Presentation) Time Allowed 60 minutes Learning Objectives As a result of this activity, participants will be able to ■ Understand generational differences as another aspect of diversity. ■ Consider how these differences impact each group. ■ Understand the “adult led, youth run” aspects of a unit. ■ Learn ways to work together across generations for a better future. Materials Needed ■ Adhesive notes labeled with generationally diverse character names ■ Small group activity worksheets/situations ■ Handout with characteri

What is weird is when I was a scout in the 1970's I never once remember hearing the words, "Wood Badge". I was a scout for 6 years and had no clue what wood badge was. My scout master had a funny looking neckerchief slide made of leather and some beads, but he never once talked about what that was. I knew all about the Order of the Arrow, we all thought that was a really cool group. Now days scouts and scouters hear about wood badge all the time. At distinct events and summer camp wood badgers will stop scouters at random and spread the good news of wood badge, and the scout

Camp-o-ree event that I have seen in person, a few months ago. Rocket Launching Contest: (Lawn Mower Scouter Style) Goal, scouts launch a solid fuel model rocket and try to land it closest to a marked target area. The patrol that lands their rocket closest to the target wins the contest. No farther instructions are given to the scouts, other than "stand in line over there." An adult (event staff and wood badge trained) loads a rocket engine into the rocket. An adult (event staff and wood badge trained) packs the wadding and rocket recovery device. An adult (event

Girls love GSUSA, it is run in a way that the girls like. Around here there are at least 3 times more Girl Scouts than Boy Scouts. Of course I live in the mountains and it is a scouting paradise and the girls get to camp and hike and do all sorts of outdoor stuff. GSUSA really does care about running a program that the girls like. I am part of the GSUSA myself and I see BSA changing bit by bit to be more like the GSUSA.

I found another interesting link, it is a book review on a book about safetyism: https://quillette.com/2018/09/02/is-safetyism-destroying-a-generation/ Here is a quote from the book review: The dangers of safety culture "Haidt and Lukianoff focus on the unintended consequences of safetyism – the idea that people are weak and should be protected, rather than exposed, to challenges. Safety culture has the best of intentions: protect kids from danger. It began with a focus on physical safety – removing sharp objects and choke hazards, requiring child seats, and not letting chi