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  1. The scouts in our troop tend to stay with our troop from age 11 all the way to age 18, one older scout left us at three years ago, but says he really misses us. He quit because he did not have the time due to sports. We had one scout quit and return after 2 years because he missed us so much and he has to travel 30 miles to come to our meetings. All the older scouts are in sports. We have a bunch of 16 year old scouts with the rank of Life that almost have their Eagle. Our main focus is "playing the game of scouting" and not advancement. Advancement is a byproduct of doing s
  2. I believe you, it is a solo gig, GSUSA gives the troop leaders so many options, and a great deal of power to run the troop any way they want (within reason), the troop leader has a free hand to run things the way she wants to, the downside is a feeling of a lack of structure and guidance. The mystery to me is way don't more GSUSA troop leaders use that gift of freedom of operations to make it into something great. I have read some great books by GSUSA troop leaders on how to run a great program, with the girls leading things, if they want to and have the know how they can do great things
  3. The girls in GSUSA get to vote on what they want to do, they are girl lead. If they want to go camping, they can vote to go camping. GSUSA is doing exactly what the women leaders and the girls in the program want. If you made BSA an all female program and make GSUSA an all male program. . . I think the boys would have a blast, it is such a open ended and free spirited program. That I am saying it is not the BSA program or the GSUSA programs that are lacking in any way and if you place girls in a BSA program with female leaders they are going to behave almost exactly like GSUSA t
  4. The news media makes these kids super stars, their name is on the news for a good 2 weeks. If a looser kid that feels like a nobody wants to go out with a bang they know all they have to do is become a mass school shooter. The bigger the body count the higher the "score" in their minds. They will be remembered and that is important to them. The news media loves mass shootings, it drives up their ratings and gives them a chance to berate the NRA, gun owners, the right wing, and pin the blame on Trump. Some kids on SSRI drugs to treat depression can reach the point that they do not care
  5. Do girls want high adventure? If they did venturing would be more popular than it is. How many girls are in venturing? Maybe 70,000 tops. What I keep hearing is girls want their eagle, because the GSUSA gold star award is not as good in their eyes. If girls wanted to go camping and go hiking that is what Girl Scouts would be doing more of. Girl scouts is a girl lead program. They push girl leadership and girls deciding what they want to do. There are 1.8 million Girl Scouts, they must be doing something the girls like.
  6. Our AOL Cub den will be going to a Camporee (and camping with) with our Boy Scout troop and going on a camping trip to Moro Bay this spring. The whole AOL Cub den will be join the troop as new scouts later this spring after cross over, they have already been to 3 troop meetings. I thought this was normal for AOL dens to do stuff with their future troop, I am surprised there are AOL dens not doing so.
  7. Arrow of Light Adventure: Scouting Adventure Complete the following Requirements. Prepare yourself to become a Boy Scout by completing at least a-c below: a. Repeat from memory the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout motto, and Scout slogan. In your own words, explain their meanings to your den leader, parent, or guardian. b. Explain what Scout spirit is. Describe for your den leader, parent, or guardian some ways you have shown Scout spirit by conducting yourself according to the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout motto, and Scout slogan. c. Give the Boy Scout sign
  8. In Europe the school system and mothers work very hard to soak young boys in feminine values like accepting responsibility for household chores, being caring, understanding and attentive, and bend to every wish of the woman. This has produced a generation of soft, insecure men, who are out of touch with their masculine nature, identity and strength. This allows them to work really well with co-ed groups without any problems. However here in the USA there are still a large number of men and boys that suffering from toxic masculinity, including myself. There are a bunch of them in the Boy
  9. I have been reading a lot of news coming out of Europe, it looks to me Co-Ed scouting works really well in Europe, I see no evidence Co-Ed scouting of being a problem in Europe.
  10. Scouts Honor, I am telling the truth. That was part of my IOLS training last year. They also taught us that we needed prepare food over a tarp, to catch food particles and use window screen to screen the top layer of dust at the camp site to gather up all micro trash. We also learned how to pick up human waste with a zip lock bag as well the toilet paper to pack the human waste out, we can wrap the human waste zip locks with duct tape to hide what is in there so you do not have to look at it. I am not making this up.
  11. As a very experienced scout/scouter that had to take training last year, I can tell you I paid very close attention to the training. The training was a joke, we were being trained about camping by someone who has never camped (other than at wood badge), who made it very clear that if we go camping or hiking we need special soft soled shoes so that we would not compact the ground and injure the worms, hike only in groups of 5 or less, when making a camp fire remove the soil 6 inches deep and set it aside, line the camp fire pit with a space blanket to protect the worms and microbes from heat
  12. If we end up with girl only troops, well that will be fantastic and I do not see that hurting boy troops at all, I can agree with you on that. I think BSA will do fine if they stick to that plan.
  13. . . . but but sometimes the rumors turn out to be false. . . . right?
  14. Michael B. Surbaugh CES expressed some very anti-co-ed feelings at the national jamboree, he said things like a "single sex program was very important to boys development" and we would NOT be going co-ed. Maybe Michael should step back or step down. . .
  15. Canada has 36,300,000 people, the USA has 323,100,000 people. (Canada's population is 11% of the size of the USA population.) BSA has 2,740,866 young people in the program, Canada has 63,000 young people in their scouting program. 0.8 % of people in the USA are youth members of the BSA 0.17% of people in Canada are youth members of Canada scouts. If BSA were as "successful" as Canada Scouts it would have 549,000 total youth members. Maybe BSA has been doing a lot of things correctly over the past years to have so much higher membership numbers than Canada.
  16. The boys in our troop keep getting asked if they have any cookies for sell, by their school mates. . . The boys in our troop keep getting asked if they have any cookies for sell, by their school mates. . .
  17. I keeping hearing people say "Girl Scouts is boring", why is Girl Scouts so boring? When I was a scout in the 1970's I do not recall anyone calling the Girl Scouts boring, the Girl Scout camp near our Boy Scout camp was considered a forbidden place of mystery and wonder, the boys back then in my troop and summer camp held the Girl Scouts in a place of very high regard, girls that could be wonderful future wives. Now in the current year, the boys in our troop think the Girl Scouts are cool, we cut and sell Christmas trees with the Girl Scouts we share a scout building with the Girl Scou
  18. The real question is when the girls join the troops and we go co-ed, will the boys stick around? Will the boys still find it fun? As leaders we can do everything right, but if the boys are not having fun they will leave. I don't talk to the boys in our troop about the girls joining, but they know from the news and guys at school teasing them about it and I have overheard them talking about it and they all have decided to walk away if it happens. My other question is why do the boys feel this way? I honestly do not know. Are most boys fine with girls joining and the boys in our troop jus
  19. I have read stories from co-ed troops in Canada and Venturing Crews in the USA that being an adult leader to a Co-Ed group on over nights is very stressful and can sometimes lead to rapid burn out and scouters quitting. Trips have much less of a scouting feel and seem more like you have become a chaperone to a high school dance. Many troops in Canada have a "tent watch" rule. The adults are required to take 2 hour night watch shifts to make sure there are not any scouts switching tents in the middle of the night. Scouting groups like to hide the numbers, but I found a number f
  20. Our district announces (for the first time) a planning meeting by email 3 hours before it starts and then the next day an angry scathing email goes out chewing everyone out for not showing up. . . and that has happened more than once. Our district cancels the district camporee 4 hours after it was suppose to start, by email, because of "weather", (Weather was clear with a night time low of 51 and day time high of 83, the ground is dry) They have canceled the district camporee, 3 years in a row now because of "weather". District reps doing the FOS thing make it well known that they
  21. If you are accused of doing something bad 10 years ago, 20 years ago or even 30 years ago how in the world do you prove the the accusations are false. We have no way of knowing how many accused men who are believed to be guilty are innocent but will never be able to prove it. David Copperfield, is once again facing new accusations. (From USA TODAY) A representative for Copperfield had no comment, but earlier Wednesday the 61-year-old illusionist posted a long statement to Twitter, calling the Me Too movement "crucial and long overdue. We all want people who feel they’v
  22. Not only is scouting doomed, Civilization as we know it is doomed. . . we have left the slippery sloop and are now in free fall without a parachute.
  23. This story is heart breaking, this young man spent 6 years in jail over false charges: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149462/Brian-Banks-One-time-football-star-rape-charge-dismissed-years-prison-accuser-contacts-Facebook-say-happened.html
  24. Another great news story on the subject: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/opinion/metoo-sexual-harassment-believe-women.html I believe that the “believe all women” vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach. (NY TIMES)
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