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Telnac

Telnac

Fundamentalist Heretic
connortheskunk said:
Star scout right here! Currently working on my scoutmaster conference for Life. I also just finished the last requirement for Personal Management like an hour ago. My troop is a little hardcore in the sense that every time you do a scoutmaster conference for First Class through Eagle, they can test you on anything in the handbook, and they make it really difficult. Most scouts take 2-3 weeks to complete it, each meeting being an hour and a half long. I had my first session two days ago and my scoutmaster said it went really well and we should be able to finish up next week at this rate.

Edit: If you fail they tell you to go home and study and come back when you are ready. You can't advance if you don't know the skills. It's so the scouts retain the knowledge of things you learn from Scout-First Class rank while you are learning leadership skills in Star-Eagle rank.
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I’m glad your troop takes this seriously. Too many do not.
 
Black Burn

Black Burn

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I was in polish scouts I was for 2 years in them, but then our team scout has changed and he was much worse than our previous and finally I left them...
 
SashaBengal

SashaBengal

Lurking Tigress
Telnac said:
I’m glad your troop takes this seriously. Too many do not.
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As a female, I'll chime in on the scouting convo.... my grandfather was an Eagle Scout & Scoutmaster long before I came on the scene. My dad and his mom were involved in the same troop as my grandfather, but Idt my dad got very far. On my mom's side, since her brothers were both in scouts, and their mom a den mother as well, my mom ended up having to tag along a lot. Idk how that affected the troop, as I don't know my uncles very well. Pretty sure they didn't get far either though.

I was never involved in Girl Scouts, nor was I interested. All I knew of it was they sold cookies and probably did a bunch of girly things, something this tomboy wanted no part of. At the same time, I never cried that I couldn't do Boy Scouts. I just accepted that there was no place for me in either organization and moved on.

I don't particularly like the idea of having the scout groups opening to the opposite gender for membership. It seems rather ridiculous to me. But what do I know, I don't have kids nor do I have any personal history with scouting.
 
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BahgDaddy

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connortheskunk said:
Star scout right here! Currently working on my scoutmaster conference for Life. I also just finished the last requirement for Personal Management like an hour ago. My troop is a little hardcore in the sense that every time you do a scoutmaster conference for First Class through Eagle, they can test you on anything in the handbook, and they make it really difficult. Most scouts take 2-3 weeks to complete it, each meeting being an hour and a half long. I had my first session two days ago and my scoutmaster said it went really well and we should be able to finish up next week at this rate.

Edit: If you fail they tell you to go home and study and come back when you are ready. You can't advance if you don't know the skills. It's so the scouts retain the knowledge of things you learn from Scout-First Class rank while you are learning leadership skills in Star-Eagle rank.
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Good job! Keep going. Our troops was a little more laissez-faire on the interviews. It was more the spirit of the letter than the content. Granted they did slide a few Eagles through who were basically... incompetent... oh well.

backpawscratcher said:
Although not a scout I was in our local Boys Brigade troop. One camp we all took great delight in playing with an electric fence, seeing how long we could keep our hands on it etc. Pretty much filled every gap in the week with it.

What a bunch of utter idiots we were :D
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Haha, been there, done that.

Telnac said:
Oh we did plenty of that too! It’s a wonder any of us survived to reach adulthood! :p
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LOL.
 
Telnac

Telnac

Fundamentalist Heretic
SashaBengal said:
As a female, I'll chime in on the scouting convo.... my grandfather was an Eagle Scout & Scoutmaster long before I came on the scene. My dad and his mom were involved in the same troop as my grandfather, but Idt my dad got very far. On my mom's side, since her brothers were both in scouts, and their mom a den mother as well, my mom ended up having to tag along a lot. Idk how that affected the troop, as I don't know my uncles very well. Pretty sure they didn't get far either though.

I was never involved in Girl Scouts, nor was I interested. All I knew of it was they sold cookies and probably did a bunch of girly things, something this tomboy wanted no part of. At the same time, I never cried that I couldn't do Boy Scouts. I just accepted that there was no place for me in either organization and moved on.

I don't particularly like the idea of having the scout groups opening to the opposite gender for membership. It seems rather ridiculous to me. But what do I know, I don't have kids nor do I have any personal history with scouting.
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A co-ed scouting experience for college-age people sounds like it’d be fun. But other than that I agree.
 
MetroFox2

MetroFox2

Resident Stone Age Fox
*Breaks out the water cannon, just in case*
 
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BahgDaddy

Guest
SashaBengal said:
As a female, I'll chime in on the scouting convo.... my grandfather was an Eagle Scout & Scoutmaster long before I came on the scene. My dad and his mom were involved in the same troop as my grandfather, but Idt my dad got very far. On my mom's side, since her brothers were both in scouts, and their mom a den mother as well, my mom ended up having to tag along a lot. Idk how that affected the troop, as I don't know my uncles very well. Pretty sure they didn't get far either though.

I was never involved in Girl Scouts, nor was I interested. All I knew of it was they sold cookies and probably did a bunch of girly things, something this tomboy wanted no part of. At the same time, I never cried that I couldn't do Boy Scouts. I just accepted that there was no place for me in either organization and moved on.

I don't particularly like the idea of having the scout groups opening to the opposite gender for membership. It seems rather ridiculous to me. But what do I know, I don't have kids nor do I have any personal history with scouting.
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Well, on the flip side, if BSA had been open to you, and more interesting, that might have been a stimulating option.
 
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