Scouting spin off group?

[SR540Beaver 116]

I don't know that I'd call the BPSA a viable alternative. They have about a dozen troops nationwide.

[BSA24 10]

Kudu - I am very familiar with your work and happy to have provided an excuse for you to post about it.

 

This is why the congressional charter, trademarks and patents should be rescinded for BSA. BPSA can't even use the word "scouts", "scout", or "scouting." They can't call someone an eagle scout, even though a BPSA scout is trained the way we are all always complaining our scouts should be trained and aren't.

 

BPSA's biggest weakness is the lack of hard assets that BSA has. You won't ever ride down a dirt road under a big logo onto a gigantic camp owned by BPSA. They don't have any sponsors, and they lack the ability to get out their message.

 

If BPSA could get their hands on some corporate sponsorship, they might be able to get something going. Even a single national campground would help them out a lot.

 

 

[Kudu 186]

 

Brewmeister writes:

 

"Is the BPSA what you recommend?"

 

I recommend Baden-Powell's Scouting program.

 

Just moving the Patrols of a BSA Troop to his minimum of 300 feet apart can electrify both Scouts and adult leaders, and make good on The Promise of Scouting.

 

Only two American "alternative Scouting associations" offer Baden-Powell's program:

 

BPSA-US, which uses Baden-Powell's 1938 program:

 

http://bpsa-us.org/

 

BPSA-USA: which uses Baden-Powell's program as it existed in 1965:

 

http://www.badenpowellscouts.org/

 

As SR540Beaver notes, this is a strictly do-it-yourself endeavor, which was true for all US Scouting in 1909. The difference between now and then (and the difference between Baden-Powell's program and all other alternative Scouting associations) is that hundreds of books have been published on precisely how to run B-P's program, dozens of which feature forwards written by Baden-Powell himself.

 

Yours at 300 feet,

 

Kudu

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