Scouter99 265 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 If the only reason they couldn't get new scouts was because the one pack died, sorry, it sounds to me like they decided to just give up. Cub Scouts aren't the only source of new recruits. Link to post Share on other sites
Sidney Porter 104 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Does it strike anyone else odd that they all chose to do their Eagle service project for the same park? One of their parents is the director of the park. Seems like their was a lack of creativity. Link to post Share on other sites
Stosh 3452 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Maybe it was a good thing the troop folded, looks like it pretty much lost it's whole vision of scouting along the way. Just too many things that leave a rather unpleasant taste in ones' mouth. Stosh Link to post Share on other sites
qwazse 4333 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Does it strike anyone else odd that they all chose to do their Eagle service project for the same park? One of their parents is the director of the park. Seems like their was a lack of creativity. Not really. Many of the scouters in our neighborhood are on local park boards. They help parks think "out of the box" and apply for grants and such to develop conservation areas. Some years all of our eagle candidates may choose a project from a single park, and each boys' projects within a park tends to be completely different from the other. Creativity actually increases because the boys are looking to enhance unique aspects of the park. Link to post Share on other sites
Eagledad 2765 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Does it strike anyone else odd that they all chose to do their Eagle service project for the same park? One of their parents is the director of the park. Seems like their was a lack of creativity. More often than not the cause of a dying troop is burnout. They are a great opportunity for adults looking to start a new troop, but they need to contact their district to let them know. Our den of 12 Webelos was looking to start a new boy run troop when district introduced us to the burned out SM of a troop of five scouts. We took over and it grew from 17 to 90 scouts in seven years. Barry Link to post Share on other sites
nextgenscouter1 23 Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Eagledad, just curios you said you grew a troop from 17 to 90 which is better in your opinion? I've honestly never understood how big troops work. I mean if you think 90 boys that would be 9 patrols of 10 kids each, you only know your fellow patrol members. Or is it not like that? Link to post Share on other sites
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