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Carter spent 40 years trying to make up for the 4 worst years of his leadership history. Carter got a lot of press, support, and had influence because he was a past president; anyone else with his track record never would been given a second thought. I'm not going to join the whitewash here; Carter's presidency is well know for the worst inflation of the 2000th century, if measured apples-to-apples, probably worse than even now. Carter bumbled everything internationally. Nearly 4 decades of post war (WW2) economic growth cratered because of his policies. The 1 federal department he is responsible for standing up is under so much fire right now because of how poorly it has blown up the US education system. The only thing I will give Carter is that he had 1 really big win as president, and that was creation of the superfund program. Everything else he touched as president was total rot. -
This sounds great but also problematic considering YPT (especially the new buddy rules).
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No, the FOIA only applies to the federal government; period. If your state has some sort of other state level law I would suggest you state what that law is and the state; it is unlikely that the law you are thinking about even vaguely affects non-government entities.
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By curious_scouter · Posted
When I came in as SM I felt similar. We had patrols, but the cohesion within them seemed kind of weak. My observation was on a campout, there was a lot of intermingling when there shouldn't be. Like... some scouts from Patrol A were supposed to be cooking or KPing and just generally hanging out with Patrol A but instead were off at Patrol B's site hanging out because that's where their friends were. It caused problems within Patrol A (they should have been there helping but weren't) and at Patrol B (they were not helping there either - just kind of in the way or worse: eating their food). Those guys should have been in a patrol together already. Patrols got formed, then over time scouts just got "put in" Patrols and then it's obvious to me also that the bonds between youth change over time - some getting stronger, some getting weaker. So you may have started in the right patrol for you, but now a year or two later your better friends are not in your current patrol. This is compounded by the fact I think teenagers find it hard to say "Hey, I would rather be with those guys." It's true, but they don't want to feel like they are telling their current patrol "I don't like you" or that they are leaving them hanging. So they just hang on where they are at vs. where they ought to be patrol-wise. My proposed solution was a "Patrol Remix Night". I proposed it at the PLC and the PLC agreed it sounded like it was needed. At the next meeting, the SPL announced "Everyone is released from their patrols. Take the next 30 minutes and form new patrols." That was all the instruction we gave. We did not mandate a min/max size. Ages. Ranks. Nothing. We just let scouts group up how they wanted. We accepted all the patrols that night, there were 7. Then the next week there was some scout-initiated reshuffling and they ended up in 5 patrols. Some were a bit bigger, some smaller, but everyone in every patrol wanted to be in that patrol. It worked well and if you have a feeling the dynamics in your Patrols are off it could help. By doing it that way I feel like we took away the stigma of wanting to leave a patrol and go be with a different group since EVERYONE was told to go re-sort. Two patrols kept prior names, the rest rebranded with new names, flag, call, etc. which I feel like that helped a lot too. The names were the decision of the current group - not something they just walked in on and had to live with. This made it more their patrol not "A" patrol. We do have a "first year patrol" but I'm even considering doing away with that concept in our Troop. Our Troop Guides, ASMs and older scouts can find and help the younger scouts no matter what patrol they are in. But I will say that over the past 5 months or so, our youngest Patrol consistently sets the bar. They are up first. They are done their meals and KP first. They have the best menus. Their campsite looks the best. They are having the most fun too. I use them all the time to challenge the other patrols to do better - and it works lol.
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