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CNYScouter

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  1. I think this is a great idea. Our council is putting togehter a Scouting University and we would be willing to particpate in this also? How is this project going?
  2. I would like to see the BSA keep up with the times and add new MB's. I would like to see the following MB's added Skateboarding Kayaking Chess or Gaming (Board Games or games like Magic) Surfing Any other ideas? CNYScouter
  3. I am lokoing at buying my first dutch oven and could use some tips about selecting one. The biggest question I have is about size. Any good rules or guidelines in what whould be a good size to start with? Thanks CNYScouter
  4. a song form the 1930's is " Sunny side of the street" Some good games that can be used for inside activities that were popular in the 1930's are Tidelly-winks and Chinese Checkers
  5. Over the weekend I decided to quietly contact some of the other troops in my district and talk with the SM their program. This district is located in a mid-size NE city and its eastern and southern suburbs. Troops range from poverty level to very effluent neighborhoods. There are about 45 Troops in this district of which 15 are ScoutReach and located in high-crime, gang-infested areas with most of the kids living below the poverty level. I narrowed my list down to the ones that were within a 15 min. drive and came up with 10 (including the Troop my son and I are currently in). 3 of the
  6. These questions came up about Individual Scout Accounts How do you control what each scout can take out? A concern came up if a parent is expecting their son to save the money in his account to use towards summer camp and the scout decides to use it for equipment instead. Do you limit the amount a scout can remove at a time without his parents permission? if so, how much? What rules do you have in purchasing things like knifes, axes and such? Do you need the scout to get parental permission before purchasing? And who decides? How do you make sure that money is being spent
  7. At our Troop meeting last I found out that up until a few years ago our SM and ASM did everything. CC and committee were in name only and did not participate. I got the same answer about doing this fundraising as I got about why only adults teach scouts at meeting "the older scouts are so busy they would not make Eagle if they have to do anything else except work on MB". I find it difficult to question SM desicions or policies as he has been SM at this Troop for over 15 years and was a SM for many years when he was younger. He has a Silver Beaver, is on the District Committee, District Adv
  8. How many Troops out there use Individual Scout Accounts? I am trying to get my sons Troop to setup fundraising so a portion of any fundraising goes into an accout for each indivdual boy. I am running into a great deal of opposition to this. SM and ASM do not think that this is a good idea. They feel that it is a waste of time to spend the resources to do this as the ones that do the troop fundraising are the ones that can afford to pay for thier sons to go on these trips and the ones that don't do fundraising won't go anyway. Currently all money goes into Troop accout and Scoutm
  9. WOW! Thanks for all the responses. I want to reply to some of the comments. Other adults see problems but it seems like they are not trying to solve them. I asked at last committee meeting (only have 2 a year) why older scouts are not teaching younger scouts. I was told that if the Troop did that no one would get Eagle. The person who made this comment added that the reason he did not get make Eagle when he was a youth in the troop was that he spent all his time teaching other scouts. I got no response and the subject was changed when I added that part of becoming Eagle and learnin
  10. Troop is talking about doing a can and bottle drive to earn money. No one in our group has done one before and I have some questions I was wondering if anyone has some statistics about doing a can and bottle drive. 1) If we were to hand out flyers what type of response, can we expect? In other words, if we were to pass out 1000 flyers how many will we get bottles from? 2) How many flyers do we need to send out to earn $500? What is the average donation we can expect from each household that does donate? 3) The troop is in an urban area and the households range from upscale,
  11. On our districts recent Klondike Derby we had a one pot meal cooking contest. Some of the Patrol names of the winning entries were: Yellow Snow Dogs The Monkeys Frozen Yetis Macho Nacho
  12. Currently the Troop my son belongs to does not use the patrol method. Our SM has Woodbadge, but no other leader has any training I will be taking SM training this spring and Woodbadge this summer. I discussed training with our CC but he feels that training takes time away that he could be spending with the scouts and cant understand why I want to take more training. Troop meetings consist of an opening, announcements, scouts doing merit badges or working on ranks (all taught by adults) and a game. Most weeks there are older scouts just hanging out and often do nothing. We have l
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