walk in the woods

It won't take activists and lawyers to complete the transition to co-ed. As you point out the structure is largely unworkable, certainly in small areas. Those units that want to be co-ed will willfully ignore the announced structure, those that would like to stay within the lines will be forced to largely ignore the proposed structure for efficiency and effectiveness. At the National meeting in 2020 the BSA will announce full co-ed units due to overwhelming experience in the field.

Your argument seems to have as a premise that a business has control over price, which it doesn't in a sufficiently competitive market. Another way to state your argument about a business is this, the primary function of a business is to return value to owners. This is accomplished by providing a service or good that meets a consumer demand at the market price. Value is returned to the owner by meeting demand for the least cost possible. Stated this was a business has exactly the same motive that you attribute to a government agency. The difference is when a business succeeds, value is returned to the owner, when Government succeeds, it rarely returns cash to the owners (taxpayers). When a business fails to meet their cost constraints, it fails, when Uncle Sam fails to meet its cost constraints, it just raises more "revenue" through increased taxes on a captive market. The government agency you reference is basically a monopoly with all the problems endemic to that model.

It's by design...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24660595.html

I think this is the key word and tricky phrase.

It was a lot of work to keep current: Hence the PoR we never saw much use or traffic: How were you measuring traffic?

Thanks for the feedback everybody. No takers for my session so maybe @ItsBrian is right that it's an unused position. Ironically, I reviewed a number of Troop websites found by searching and they were uniformly years out of date. With the coming membership change I wonder if it's right to say nobody will be searching for Scout Units on the web. Several sites linked to FB but the pages that were open appeared to be adult-driven. Maybe we should change the position title to Social Media Curator......

@ItsBrian, thank you for the feedback. I'm curious about your statements "know how to use technology well" and "least important and easiest job." From my perspective they seem to contradict each other. If youth are technology consumers, wouldn't a good technology presence be important for a Troop?

I'm working with my District Training folk to put together some supplemental training for youth positions of responsibility. I have the bit for webmaster. What guidance would you give to a youth webmaster beyond what's in the job description?

You ascribe the emotion "fear" to @gblotter when he quite clearly said "sad" and explained his position. As with the previous membership changes, the onus is on the supporters now to make it work, not on those who decide to move on to defend their decision. When I was a boy I learned A Scout is Loyal: He is loyal to those to whom loyalty is due. It's a two-way relationship. Our brothers and sisters who might feel betrayed have every right to move on without having their motives questioned.

My experience, like many I suspect, was many teachers, coaches, and professionals weren't willing to register with the BSA nor go through the training, to become a MBC. They were happy to review requirements with the boys and sign off, but, it all depended on the individual MB counselor as to whether that was acceptable. I get the YPT issue, but, based on the OP I think this MBC was wrong. I agree a video should suffice as witness and a meeting for any discuss/describe requirements would be in order.

https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/familyscouting/pdf/Family-Scouting-Infographic.pdf

So you responded "You go girl!" and walked away laughing maniacally?

Future Farmers of America just turned into FFA.

All-girl packs don't exist yet. The early adopters were Boy Packs that agreed to take girls now. We shouldn't see Girl Packs until fall based on the full kickoff.

Saw this on another scouting list: The 2017 link is in the quote. The 2016 document I could find is linked at https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/key-topics/report-to-the-nation/

In my situation, the COR was also registered as the CC for all three units. The unit leaders (CM, SM, Adviser) were generally committee members in the other units. We had one committee meeting a month, handled the business of all three units, and went on our way.

But they are only updating cloud (and it's different than suite), the CC files are a different format than suite, and the save down option from cloud to suite has been hit and miss in my shop.

A technology the vendor effectively abandon what, three years ago?

Beekeeping!!!!!

I suppose it depends on where and when you went to school.

Winter 2018 Commissioner Newsletter says some about Family Scouting (although nothing really new):

Well, not really. The change back could just as easily be, existing members can continue at their will, but we will no longer accept new female members.

"Shut up and Listen" is exactly what we've been doing to boys for 50 years. It is the reason we have disparity. Other than that, the analogy is good.

If Star, Life and Eagle were moved into the 14-21 age group, exclusively, it's a simple matter to make the required leadership positions for Eagle focus on the Troop. SPL, ASPL, Troop Guides, Instructors all could come from the Venturing program, providing service to the Troop Program. The middle-school aged scouts would see the responsibility being handled by the HS aged scouts and the HS aged scouts would have the adventure program separate from the troop. Feels like the best of both worlds to me.

Or keep the 14-21 age and make Boy Scouts 11-14 with a simple focus on ST21; move SLE and merit badges in to Venturing.