Significant Cultural Changes are Coming Soon
For this posting, let us predict and discuss fundamental cultural changes that might affect our program and activities. Here are hypothetical examples to get the discussion going:
· Parents may no longer repose sufficient trust in Scouting leaders. As a result, a significantly higher number of organization-registered and YPT parents might need to be present at meetings and campouts.
· YPT will have
How, exactly?
I've heard this complaint so often "if only Boy Scouts of America hadn't been so political!" or some such. The Boy Scouts of America has ALWAYS been political. It's embraced a very conservative, rural (if not suburban) view on life circa 1960s Americana.
1) Segregated councils/units: Since early on Boy Scouts of America (national) allowed for segregated units and even outright segregated Councils. National looked the other way and/or simply allowed those "separate but equ