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7 weeks since my son's Eagle BOR and no word from National. This is breaking the records we saw during Covid.... -
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By RememberSchiff · Posted
Yes. IMHO, this phenomena grew as camporee patrol competition gave way to weekend merit badgerees. Mastering requires practice. And the best incentive to practice is competition. My $0.02, P.S. What If? The nights camping requirements were tweaked to add x number of patrol competitions? -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
I have never witnessed the inner workings of this "meatgrinder" or "professional proficiency" you speak of. What do you mean by this, say, with reference to specific skills?? Are you referring to a Troop which tests Scouts multiple times, or where, during an SM conference, the SM tests skills and refuses to sign off that conference unless the Scout demonstrates proficiency? I have heard of units like that, but either they do not last long, or the adults who create that climate move on fairly quickly and the pendulum moves toward the model (or swings past to the "anything can get signed off." ) The requirements themselves demand some level of proficiency... For example, the First Class requirement to demonstrate a square lashing... it had better start with a clove hitch on one pole, have three full wraps which alternate inside and outside of the previous wraps, two full fraps, and end with a clove hitch on the other pole. All this is according to the Scout Handbook. If it doesn't have those elements, it's not a square lashing, and that doesn't get signed off. I note that the description of "The Four Steps of Advancement" in the Scout Handbook says, in step "2. You are tested: Once you feel that you have mastered a skill, a leader tests you..." [emphasis added] That might be where some people go off the deep end... the word mastery is very subjective, and means different things to different people. But, I find the word "mastery" in no requirements themselves. -
This is pretty normal weather for that area; I lived out there for a long time. It's crazy that there wasn't a contingency plan on standby.
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