SiouxRanger

It would be helpful if you could list those risks.

Give the child credit and adjust (fudge all other numbers).

You may well be right, but then the issue becomes: "Not vetted by CO/COR to camp with unit, but 'vetted just enough' by Council to be an MBC." So, seems to me that MBC's come in several varieties, in approximate descending order of "vettedness" to my way of thinking: 1. An MBC who is also currently a unit adult leader counseling only scouts from that unit. Currently, both CO/COR vetted by the scout's unit and Council vetted as an MBC. 2. An MBC who is also currently a unit adult leader counseling scouts from other units. Currently, both CO/COR vetted by the other unit and Co

Please understand that my brain has been for sale on eBay for some years, without sale, but is harder than most road bricks. And DVOA? Who would they be? The "Department of Volunteer Orangutang Advocates?" I am just a slow-minded nobody. And just so content to be slow-minded, and a nobody. BUT, when somebody seeks to communicate to another, it is somebody's responsibility to actually COMMUNICATE to the others. And to communicate such that the intended recipient of the communication can understand it. So, "DVOA," Je, ne comprend pas.

And thereby the Council was killed. I quit giving to Friends of Scouting when my council executive was paid more than 4 times my income. Just a simple lawyer, I am, huge liability if I get it wrong. BSA Council executives are grossly overpaid. My local council executive gets paid nearly what my child gets paid as an attending radiologist. (MD). My child gets it wrong, patient dies. Council Executive gets it wrong-well staff gets it wrong-an extra three minute wait for a porta-potty. My current Council Executive manages a staff of 9± (down from 27 staff) and is paid about $300,000

Two unimportant anecdotes (but entertaining and IMPORTANT, scoutily): 1. I bought a canoe once, tied it onto my van. The Dad (seller) nodded to his son to look under the van to check out my knots-son was an Eagle. (Me-Eagle) Dad did not think I saw Dad's direction to son, or understand its meaning. (Was a mere look-Dad to son-eyes moved toward my knot work-subtle) Son looked, son subtly nodded to Dad: "OK." Take aways: Dad was concerned that I would adequately secure the canoe. Son was trusted by Dad to understand the meaning of a few eye movements, AND trusting that son KNEW HIS K

For us fossils, Discord is a what? What are the perceived strengths and dangers? Thanks!

I have wondered why ALL the councils (and maybe there were a few which did not, and anyone who knows, please post) got on board to contribute in the amounts determined by National to the Settlement Fund though being, in the words of National, "independent not for profits" from National and not under National's control. My council has virtually no exposure to abuse claims, as near as I can tell (lawyer), yet it sold off 1/4 of its only camp to a buyer which logged it immediately. A sad and tragic event. Some of that land was donated for the use of Scouts. In the words of "Carson the B

A great practical idea, but I suspect that BSA's insurers will want documentation that every covered scouter sat through and passed the BSA (and insurer) approved YPT training. Sadly, what was once so simple, is now so complicated.

Actually, it is like trying to balance a real estate closing statement. I think they are known as the "Thirteenth Torment of Haydes," down there.

Why "not preferred?" And what is the issue if a Committee Member "works like an ASM?" A scout needs a mentor, a scout learns, a scout passes his requirement, AND THEN some "rule" is offended?" (Yet, the Scout learned the requirement? Mission accomplished.) An adult is needed to mentor scouts. In 25 years I've never heard a scout complain that he achieved a goal because he was mentored by a "mere" member of the committee.

Yeah-me: 25 years in a small boat with the snarly dragon of the "Void of Skilled and Willing Volunteers." (The Void tries its best to suck the enthusiasm from the willing who show up to make a difference. The Void looks a lot like indifference, but it is more pernicious.) Our Troop has about 8 adults who are involved from time to time, and 4 our 5 who are there ALWAYS. In my work life, I live in a world of rigid rules where a judge can sentence a defendant to life in prison or order an insurance company to pay an injured person $8 million. I cannot get too "wound up" over the

Could you please explain what you mean? I just don't understand your post and I want to understand your meaning. Thanks.

Amen. (Me not one "prior to" but certainly after they aged out.)

Is the corollary that "If the CO approves the adult leader, they can participate in all unit activities?" Or can/should the CO approve an adult leader for only certain activities? "You can serve on Boards of Review, but not go on campouts." (How finely can one mince the onion?)

I regret that I have one Upvote to give for this post.

That is precisely the point. If you are registered, then you have had/done both. Not registered, may YPT but unlikely background check. Registration is a a quick and easy way top determine compliance.

So, in your mind, an adult male, registered leader, 4 Eagle Scout sons, all of whom aged out, wants to go on a campout. What is your rule?

So, as I read this, all scouts who have met the OA qualifications are put on the ballot, and stand for election. The SM does not exercise the SM's discretion to exclude from the ballot a scout that the SM believes should not be elected. The doomed scout's name appears on the ballot and the doomed scout knows he was on the ballot. The doomed scout does not know he is doomed. The scout electorate believes the doomed scout to be a viable candidate because he is on the ballot, and perhaps deems him worthy and elects him to the OA, not knowing that their vote won't count. And wh

Does the Cub Scout have any service time in a Webelos den with the prior Pack before it folded? Maybe he could add that to Webelos den activity with your Pack.

I live East of the Mississippi. In my state, I know of no "local tribes" which have a presence here any longer. I've lived here for more than 60 years. The only tribes claiming their origin in my state are far away. They have no presence here. Occasionally, a representative of a tribe will appear to speak to some issue. Maybe once a decade. And even at that, I have little sense or knowledge of their removal from my state, the depth of their connection to my state. How does one even determine which tribes occupied their area, and their current representatives? And, "honor."

And supporters of Survivors are always checking. Truly said, "Silence is not absence." One eye is always open… No matter how long the trail, or how high the passes, or how heavy the pack, we will be there.

I am struggling to understand the concept of "cultural appropriation" and continue my studies… But in the meantime, does an OA Lodge have some obligation to either obtain approval or conform to the Native American Personna of a tribe LOCAL to the Lodge's location? That is, can an OA Lodge in Minnesota adopt a Seminole personna? In my 50+ years of attending OA tap-out ceremonies in my Council, the ceremony always referenced the Lenni Lenape, which are from the upper Northeast. So, are all OA Lodges to conform to the regalia of the Lenni Lenape? Thanks.

I do dislike auto correct. What I typed was "Are these Order of the Arrow members or KKK Folks?" (Not "of.") Maybe that makes no difference to InquisitiveScouter. But, I was NOT intending to equate the OA with the KKK. I just can't make sense of the picture. I must be missing something.

I find this photo to be unsettling. Are these Order of the Arrow members of the KKK folks? I just can't tell.