Day_Starr

I think "boy-led" is going to mean different things according to the troop and the boys and adults involved. When my husband took over as Scout Master, at one point he was told by the former SM (now Assistant SM) and the SPL that it's boy run and that the parents should have no say in it at all. The SPL followed it up with how annoyed he was with parents who would punish boys by not letting them go on camping trips. Lets see...if we don't have two adults...there's no camping at all. If we don't have adults who can sign contracts for meeting places...no meeting place. There has to be a ba

Khalil Gibran was a poet, and I believe that the focus of the school is cultural, as is the new Asian High School that is being built or recently opened here in Queens. Although the focus is on the Arabic culture any student can apply if they are interested. I have mixed feelings about the schools -- we've fought too hard to integrate here in New York, and it still hasn't happened. Schools are basically composed of children of the segregated communities that NYC is composed of. And schools in poorer communities still get the short end of the stick. After 911 I can understand Arabs