District Review of Eagle Project Books

[packsaddle]

Hey, slash and burn (ahem, done constructively of course) can be fun! You get to improve the overall system by eliminating stuff. What could be easier?

[fgoodwin]

John, yes, our Council offers a full EBOR panel to review a Scout's project proposal, but it isn't mandatory.

 

If the Scout wants to submit it for a member of the DAC to review & approve it, that's also allowed.

[eisely]

Semper,

 

If your district chair will back you and you have a slate of volunteers available to fill the vacated positions when the current group resigns in protest, go for it.

[kb6jra]

District Advancement Committees are a great idea in a centralized management style, but when you "decentralize" the overall management of this segment of Scouting, it quickly becomes a competition of which district has the most "legitimate" Eagles around.

 

Case in point is my Council. We've got 10 districts, soon to grow again. The Council management style was to leave the districts to themselves due to the vast area of the Council. This caused several good ideas to become rooted and now some districts have ridiculous extra provisions for Eagle projects, Boards of Review, and the like.

 

One District required boys showing up for Eagle Boards to be in full uniform only, nothing else was acceptable. The boy also had to have hiking boots on, no other shoes would be acceptable and he would not receive a BoR. While this is desirable, I don't see it as enforceable.

 

Another District required the following, sort of a district level Scoutmasters Conference. First the Eagle candidate made an appointment with the district Eagle counselor. The Counselor required a meeting with the boy, then his parents, then his scoutmaster, then all of them together. This was before they could submit a project. After the project was finished, but before the BoR was scheduled, they had to do it all over again. It's not like this guy lived right around the corner either.

 

I would venture a guess that most councils have their issues in this regard. The two councils that closely border ours have similar problems.

 

Getting back to your original post, our District takes about 2 - 3 weeks, depending on the volume of projects at the office. During the summer months (vacation times) we may have longer waits. A BoR takes a minimum of 1 month to schedule.