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ValleyBoy

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  1. We have had this discussion inside our troop with adult leadership. Our SM son's best friend is also a member of the troop and they spend a lot of time together. No telling the number of times that only one adult was present. Both of these youth are over 18 now but are still registered with the troop. Our SM also works with his Churches youth group and they also use 2 deep adult leadership but it is our understanding that he is in violation of scouting youth protection if any of the youth that attend are scouts and there are not 2 registered scout leaders present at thoughts activities.
  2. You are correct. But has the scouting program gone overboard in certain situations when it comes to 2 deep leadership. Example, Timmy and Tommy are next door neighbors and best friends. Both are in the same patrol which Timmy is the patrol leader. They meet after school at one of them house to work on an activity for the next scout meeting with no adults present since there parents have not got home from work or only one parent is home but is inside the house and they work on the activity in the back yard. Since this is a scouting related activity do you as a registered youth protection
  3. Several years ago while I was SM of the troop over half the youth were members of the High School & Middle School band and there concerts were always on the same night (Tuesday) as our meeting time. Instead of canceling our meeting we would move our meeting to Monday evening at city hall and attend the city council meeting.
  4. Scouting can happen at many different places as long as the rules are followed. If the Scoutmasters conference at the SM home works for that unit and 2 deep leadership is followed I see nothing wrong if this is the way this troop does this. The troop that I am a member is sponsored by a Church and I am a member of another church. Several week ago my church's men's had a breakfast and workday at the church, I invited the scouts to attend and informed them that they could earn service hours for the event. One other adult leader with our troop attended with his son but even if he had not att
  5. Does not help when the council office about shuts down the last half of December.
  6. The older camp was placed in a trust around 100 years ago. Council sold another camp before leasing the Corp of Engineers property around 20 years ago. I believe the lease is for 50 years.
  7. If the local councils get pulled into the Chapter 11 some such as my local council might be able to survive. The reason I say this is that my local council only owns the local council office building. The two camp properties that the council uses are not owned by the council. The main camp is leased from the Army Corp of Engineers and the other older camp property is in a trust that cannot be sold and would revert to the local community only if the scouts abandoned the property.
  8. But what do you do when you have a good unit except for having a uninvolved CO/COR.
  9. I do not see it as restoring the role of the Chartered Organization. I see it as a better line of communication between the council and the Charter Organizations. Most units that I see that drop. drop because of losing adult leadership that were not members of the charter organization and have no youth that were members of the charter organization.
  10. At this event I feel Pale Horse is correct. The reason i feel he is correct is because of the following. My council has 3 fall family campout weekends in the fall that are all at the same location. Most packs decide which weekend that they are going to attend an usually set up in one campsite. but each family attending has to register for the event with the council. The pack can reserve a campsite for all there families attending if they so desire. As a pack we would decide which weekend we would attend but each family decided if they wanted to attend that same weekend or were free to a
  11. At different times we have got mixed signals from my local council on what is allowed and not allowed under GTSS when it comes to the scouting program. The interpretation within my council on cub scout camping is that all cubs below webelos have to have a parent, relative over the age of 18, or guardian ( foster parent) with them when camping overnight except for council/district overnight lock-ins.
  12. As an registered scout leader youth protection is very important. 17 years ago while I was Cubmaster I was at a Council run cub scout family campout. There were 4 or 5 other families from our pack set up in our campsite. At that time I had only met each one of these families just several months before when there son joined the pack. About the time I was going to start cooking supper for my son and I, I received a phone call from my wife and was informed that she, my mother and daughter had been involved in a bad car accident. I informed the parents of my pack of what had happen and that
  13. As a unit leader I would have a talk with that adult and inform them that since they are part of an scouting activity that they have to follow scouting YPT rules. Also that they now have one strike against them and another strike will mean they have to leave the activity.
  14. I must be getting old because I remember Dino and Sinclair gas stations in the south back in my younger days. Have not seen one in right at 50 years.
  15. Pre EBOR we turn in the 2 page application, reference letters, and Completed Eagle Project workbook to the Council office.
  16. In my council if the SE wants to look thru the project binder he should have had the council register make him a copy when it was at the council office the first time before the BOR.
  17. I know for the Eagle BOR that I have been a member of that the above is what we have informed the scout that have to be returned to the council office.
  18. My locale camp allows bicycles to be used on the camp after the bicycle is checked for any safety issues and the scout is briefed on the camp rules on riding a bicycle such as areas of camp that they cannot be used such as 2 very steep dirt roads that are used as walkways between most of the campsites and main area of the camp. The scout is then issued a use permit that is attached to the bicycle. No traffic court, break any of the camp bicycle rules and the scout loses permit and can no longer used the bicycle for the rest of summer camp. ONE STRIKE and YOU are OUT RULE.
  19. I would not count it for either of the above 2 merit badges. It is not one of the type meeting listed for the Citizenship in the Community merit badge.
  20. Plus 1 to this. The local scout camp that I attended as a youth and were my grandfather served on staff at in the 1940's was donated to the scouts sometime between 1911 and 1920. This 40 something acre camp is held in a trust by the local scout council. Around 1990 the local council became part of our neighbor council. In the mid 2000's the local council closed the camp and the speculations were that they intended to sell the property. What the new council did not know was that they did not own the property so they could not sell the property. The way the property was worded in the tr
  21. Eagle BoR are different from other rank BoR in my district due to the fact that other rank BoR are done by persons that know the scout on the unit level whereas the members of the Eagle BoR may not have ever had any dealing with the scout. There have been many Eagle BoR that I have been a member of that the board as not even asked the scout to say the scout oath or the scout law. But one question we almost always ask is one of the following. " There are 12 scout laws if you had to remove one of the laws which one would you remove and give your reason why you would remove it for the law.' o
  22. At my local councils summer camp each bath/shower house is shared between 2 campsite that will hold about 40. In the campsite my troop was located during summer camp was shared by 4 different troops. All female troops were placed in 2 campsites that shared the same bath/shower house. Everything else stayed the same.
  23. The scouter at the range in this case absolutely did the wrong thing. I have a special needs daughter and would not have had a problem if she would have not been allowed due to the fact that I know her abilities. The biggest issue to me is camp staff that do not know how to deal with special needs kids so there fallback position is potential safety issues.
  24. Well we had one scout that had 27 knife's on him during a camping trip. His father who was on the camping trip removed all but 2 of the knifes from him.
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