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Unless the lawsuits come out of people who traveled in for the event on a special invitation (West Point Cadets can steer invitations to their hometown troops throughout the nation) I don't see anything going anywhere. This is really common weather for this time of year; maybe they might get some sympathy if they just moved there a month ago from Florida, but I doubt it. With the academy involved there are all kinds of crazy wavers that have to be signed in addition to just the reality of the time of year and expectation that something like this is likely to happen. Just to clarify further, crap weather like what was experienced has happened historically more on this camporee than not. -
BSA/SA. In order to achieve Scout rank, a scout has to recite the Outdoor Code, which explicitly delineates appropriate behavior in the outdoors and being conservation minded. WOSM: In addition to what Awake Energy posted, there is an explicit directive from the WOSM website: https://www.scout.org/what-we-do/young-people-and-communities/environment Additionally, WOSM is partners with the World Wildlife Federation and the United Nations Environmental Program. Partnership means that you share the same philosophies. As a parallel example of what codes and partnerships mean, BSA/SA has a youth protection code of conduct and partners with youth protection groups. Youth safety isn't explicitly written into our mission statement, but that doesn't mean BSA/SA would participate in events where youth safety would be at risk because you can find great hammocks and rice plants. -
If you cancel a camporee for a justifiable reason, you lose money. I have seen that as more of a driving force than scout safety looks like this is more of the same if a troop does the proper thing and pulls out past the refund date at least the district does not lose the reg, fees Watch for a few parents to file adverse harm lawsuits against the unit's leadership, district, and council for not taking proper care of their scouts john -
Part of the outdoor programming has a higher cost, requires more skill from the adults, and requires more output from scouts and parents. Most troops act more like family groups going camping. Group cooking etc Somewhere, we have lost the, at least when I was a scout, it was the process that made you an Eagle Scout, not pinning on a badge. I remember meeting people who were active in their fields as merit badge counselors. Summer camp was for the rarer outdoor merit badges, i.e., swimming, lifesaving, riflery, and other shooting scouts. See the OA perform back when there was an awe factor. Se focus on the badge numbers not the process. john
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My district merit badge "college" director called me to see if I would do Camping merit badge as I was a registered mB counselor, she wanted to know if I needed a full day for it, or whether a half-day session was enough. 😲 I have said this before but it bears repeating, one of the most important parts of the mB process is the built Adult Association method. Far too often this is lost on the adults. Imagine if the adults in charge of coordinating the mBs at camp, or in a troop had this method at the forefront equal to the advancement method. 🤩 Now imagine the lost opportunities for scouts when this is not done. 😢
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