Thank you all for taking up the subject and sharing your thoughts.
Your discussion centers around the same concerns I have and I wanted to make sure I wasn't making up my own rules or creating concerns where none should exist.
The Badges in question are academic, not skill related, the Scout has taught some of them (not all) as Staff at Summer Camp, and this would be a Unit Merit Badge Clinic event. I think this Scout would do a good job, and I'm all in favor of taking any opportunity to develop Scout leadership skills. But...... I'd like to stay with the intent of the Scouting Program.
I read the ACP&P the way you do; MBs are accomplished with a qualified Adult Counselor working with a Scout, and there is a specific exemption for LT/Summer Camp.
I'm not sure it intended that we migrate this Summer Camp style of Clinic to the Unit level.
The non-Camp MB Clinics that are open to all Scouts in our District or Council area are taught by adults who, though they may not work individually with a Scout, usually possess a level of expertise in their subject that more than makes up for any lack of individual contact.
