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I feel like relitigating changes from 1972 is not a productive use of time.

Tenderfoot to first class have a lot of specific elements. http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Tenderfoot_rank

Or use those sew on around the outside tabs (no idea what the name is), so you can see who has been renewing forever vs earned it only once.

That's far too much. It's not a wedding.

yes, technically it is not a required element of the webelos uniform. That said, if they are "Practicing the patrol method in your den for one month" then as webelos scouts they should be wearing a patrol patch, IMO. Again, I wouldn't care too much if they don't worry about the patch if they are about to cross over, because they will repeat the patrol formation process again shortly. The troop should not hand over the patch because the youth aren't in the troop. It should either be the pack/den, or the individual scout's job to get the patch, depending on your unit's custom. But patrol pa

I’ll agree with that. Running as a patrol is my first plan for my bear den starting next year. I want everyone to call us the robot den or the wolverines or whatever the kids pick instead of webelos 1. Some of the stuff well hold off on til the next year, but that scouting adventure requirement should start as the first webelos activity, and its not a good thing that the training stuff doesn’t explain that.

I don’t know if earns the patrol patch is the right way to put it. They have a patrol emblem once they vote on it. They just are the raccoons den, or the tacos or whatever. The den leader could buy the patchs, the youth could buy them, etc as per your pack tradition. If you’re crossing over shortly, I might not do that just because it’s not real thrifty. But a troop generally wouldn’t purchase the patch because the troop doesn’t buy stuff for youth who aren’t members.

I made custom patrol patches for the rest of my WB patrol using our patrol totem, but that's a specific sort of thing.

$0, but our yearly pack fees are on the higher side.

Beyond my pay grade, but would the unit need to fill out the unit fundraising form for each event?

I certainly wouldn't be signing up to work a hotdog stand monthly unless the financial return were substantially better. I would just end up being busy those evenings, regardless of when it was.

Also a good idea to help those of us used to the cub scout process have some time to adjust to the Patrol method.

To clarify, I certainly wouldn't say that it can't happen, or that it would be bad. New scouts reaching tenderfoot in a month is a good goal, especially for a new troop getting everyone up to speed. I would just expect that to reach second class in two months, you inevitably have the one or two scouts that missed a meeting and couldn't quite get every thing done and are one requirement short. And even if not, if they are all enjoying the process, working the method, etc, I'm not going to say they are doing it wrong.

Exactly that. The best thing to do is find out how things are going, rather than guess from afar.

There's a general requirement of "All requirements for the Scout rank must be completed as a member of a troop or as a Lone Scout. If you have already completed these requirements as part of the Webelos Scouting Adventure, simply demonstrate your knowledge or skills to your Scoutmaster or other designated leader after joining the troop." But their own meeting should clearly count. As a whole, I'd be perhaps a bit more concerned if every scout earned tenderfoot in 1 month, and then second class the following month.

In addition, if any of the new scouts were previously venturer scouts, the scout rank would be second nature already.

It opens as a pdf in safari on mac for me. It doesn't include what you needed though.

I discovered that they still have my bsa member id number from when I was a scout in the mid-90s. Don't think they'll have an email associated with it, from back then, but I wonder if the prodigy email is in there somewhere.

my.scouting.org log in->menu -> my dashboard -> my profile -> contact info click green plus.

In specific, you have to be invited by a particular politician, which certainly makes your presence there inherently partisan.

Its just translating something written down, not a speech and not carrying on a conversation. The written word is just that, words written down.

Last year our pack operated like that. It didn't work real well, in that it was hard to schedule, hard to get things done, and I think we lost a fair number of scouts because there wasn't much interaction. This year we moved to having all the den meetings at once. It works out so that we meet 3 times a month, 2 den meetings and 1 pack meeting. It has helped a good bit. Everyone is almost done with rank advancement now rather than rushing in may, dens interact, attendance is pretty good because everyone knows what day to show up and its just part of the routine. Weekly meetings is a very good t

I think most of the comments have been. But some are trying to bring in a larger culture war.

I find it ironic that a thread about the need to stop the grousing about the BSA choice to add girls has yet again descended into grousing about the BSA choice.

https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2018/12/06/why-your-partially-completed-position-specific-training-wont-carry-over-into-2019/ If you were trained beforehand for your position, you are still trained. If you change to a new position, to be trained you need the new training. If you were only partially through the online training you'll have to start over. It sounds like you are fine though.