"What does the Eagle Co-Ordinator do? Micro manage the Scouts Eagle project. Useless position in my opinion. "
I disagree with this by pointing out that it doesn't HAVE to be this way. I'm in the process of re-vamping our Life to Eagle process for our troop and have seen many valuable points in this thread. The main one is that this position provides GUIDANCE to the Scout, who's going through a pretty involved process. Little reminders and suggestions and "ticklers" are different from "micro-managing".
My son was recently denied the approval at his EBOR, due to some oversights and misunderstandings. Granted, the SM should have mentioned and clarified things in the SMC, but he didn't. And had the boy (and a couple of others like him) had a little guidance and "ticklers" from an ESC, it wouldn't have happened the way that it did.
There is an appeal process and some other things that are being done, and I have no doubt that he will be awarded the rank of Eagle, but if we can prevent this from happening to others, it'll be worth the effort.
