Merit Badge iPhone App

[JMBadger 10]

I think SR540Beaver got it right mentioning the MB Fair (or MB University as we call it around here). We get the application for the MBU a month or two beforehand and the boys are told to select a first, second, and third choice. They don't find out which MB they'll be working on until a week before the seminar (or worse, when they get there). Not enough time to study the pamphlet, and then the counselor wonders why the boy hasn't read it. The boy winds up getting the MB anyway.

 

Do this a few times and now the boy thinks this is the way it is supposed to be: no need to read the pamphlet or prepare in any other way, show up, sit through a lecture, try to avoid answering questions, get the badge. And in a one-on-one session with a counselor, he expects the same treatment.

 

Has anyone ever heard of a boy being sent out of a seminar/lecture because he wasn't prepared?