Adult Association Method

[MattR 2667]

 Example:  "nless the patrol method is in operation, you don’t really have a Boy Scout troop."

But here "The Patrol Method" is just another label. For those that haven't seen it, that phrase could just as well mean there are scouts that wear patrol leader patches. It's the same as boy led, everyone says their troop is boy led. It's just a label that has no meaning.

 

Maybe the real problem is nowhere is there a description of what patrol method or boy led is not. Given the subjective nature, describing what something isn't is just as important as describing what it is. Since nobody can distinguish between what it is and what it isn't, obviously everyone is doing it the right way and nobody can be doing it wrong.

 

Another problem is that every description also implies it's binary, either it is boy led or it isn't. Well, we don't know what it isn't so either it is boy led or ... it is.

[TAHAWK 1420]

If that is all that was said, I would agree, but B.S.A. says all the right things - just not in any coherent way.