IOLS complaint

[Stosh 3452]

 

I do not need an excuse to go camp. I may need my wife's permission, but never an excuse.

 

The only excuse I have to come up with is why she can't go, too. She even checks each time to "make sure I have two-deep", just in case I don't, then she gets to go!

 

I have also been warned that if the activity involves rivers, lakes or even creeks, she will need to go or I can't go either.

 

Stosh

[TAHAWK 1420]

I cannot recall an IOLS course where I didn't learn something valuable from a "participant." Collective experience is a wonderful thing. Attending is an opportunity to share.

 

It is my opinion that IOLS should be a course on how to teach TSF outdoor skills so Scouters can teach the leaders in their troop. (Otherwise, why the "Leader" in the title?) If it were such a course, then someone believing they had mastered outdoor skills might be more open to taking the course.

 

A common observation is that the time allocated allows only a relatively superficial coverage of the topics, even by TSF standards.