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TroopMaster or Other advancment software.
perdidochas replied to Basementdweller's topic in Advancement Resources
Beavah, IMHO, 40 hrs a week means that the volunteer isn't being efficient. Our troop is about half the size I remember E61 saying his scout's troop is (we're about 20 active, 15 barely there, IIRC he said about 40 or 50). I enter data during troop meetings, and work a few more hours sorting out Summer camp and each Court of Honor. Nowhere near 40 hrs a week ever. Then again, I've never had to enter all the data for a big bunch of new scouts. Our feeder pack uses Packmaster, so I can just transfer records in. -
TroopMaster or Other advancment software.
perdidochas replied to Basementdweller's topic in Advancement Resources
We've got about 20 active boys (and about 15 others). I'm AC, and I've never spent more than two or three hours outside of the 1 1/2 hr meeting time on entering/maintaining things in Troopmaster. The only exception being before Courts of Honor, when that prep is three or four hours (not including driving time to scoutshop). Also, base, using and entering data into Troopmaster shouldn't be your job. Your Advancement coordinator should be dealing with it. TM is quirky, but it works. -
You don't want those EZ-up canopies, IMHO. My troop had those when my boys first joined. The boys didn't particularly like them, they are extremely heavy, and they don't teach much in terms of scout skills. In addition, living in a beach town, I have seen way too many skeletons of them at the beach. They aren't particularly durable. We've just gone to tarps with poles. IMHO, they work better for rain than did the EZ-ups. We had a recent camporee in which it rained for 12 hrs straight. The flies held up fine and kept the rain off of us.
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The spiral bound are the worst.
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Future BSA President Intent to Eliminate the Ban on Gays
perdidochas replied to BSA24's topic in Issues & Politics
I just hope that the local option is allowed. -
For the most part, you don't need OWL for council/district activities. The critical part of OWL planning has been done.
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I'd say no as well.
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Don't worry, it's only an hour a week :-) I agree with ScoutNut--take the Webelos OWL training as soon as possible. You have to get the boys into the outdoors. You have to work on them with knots, you have to hike, you have to get out of arts/crafts. Try to get the boys to decide on more and more things. They will soon be making most of their own decisions in scouting.
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Thankfully, some other people are stepping up to pay the bill. Whoever they are, I thank them. http://www.koinlocal6.com/mostpopular/story/rescue-bill-ambulance/WwkGHTzV0E6EqyQ66qxp_A.cspx
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I'm just happy that they got rid of the Tiger Cub versions of the Law, etc. I was a TDL in the last year of the old way of doing things. I hated having to work on two different mottos, etc.
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Without emotion this stuff can be fascinating
perdidochas replied to Eagledad's topic in Issues & Politics
I support the idea of boycotting companies who's owners' views are counter to mine, and for you to boycott companies who's owner's views are counter to your views. However, I'm totally against the idea that governmental people can stop the opening of companies in their cities because the companies' views are counter to the views of the governmental person. Private people can punish freedom of speech through the market. The government should not. -
Without emotion this stuff can be fascinating
perdidochas replied to Eagledad's topic in Issues & Politics
In the case of the Dixie Chicks, they simply forgot who their core audience was. Country music fans are much more loyal than pop fans. Yes, the Dixie Chicks sold a lot more of their album after the controversy than they did in their previous albums, but they lost their country fans, who would have kept their career going as long as they wanted it. My guess is that the Chic Fil A boycott repercussions will be localized. Some franchisees are going to make a killing, and will be doing as much business as they can. Others will go out of business. -
Proposal - Have Webelos Den meetings at Troop meetings
perdidochas replied to fred8033's topic in Cub Scouts
The pack I was once in would have their second year Webelos meet with the Boy Scouts occasionally. I didn't do it as a WDL, because we had too many boys that had brothers in the Pack. Didn't want them to have to double up their meetings any longer than necessary. Retention rates were not any different between the Webelos that met with the Boy Scouts, or the ones that stay in the Pack. The advantage of staying with the Pack is to get the Webelos to lead the Pack. -
IIRC, the LDS has said they would drop. I doubt that Catholic units would drop, as long as it was a local issue.
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DeanRx, Reagan's admin sponsored AIDS research. It went from from $44 million in 1983 to $103 million, $205 million, $508 million, $922 million, and then $1.6 billion in 1988. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/03/24/joy-behar-lies-about-reagans-aids-record-during-her-hln-elizabeth-taylor#ixzz21knGF5Gw
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My church (and CO) has it's middle and high school youth groups meeting on Sunday night. I think Sunday night would be a horrible night.
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Documents obtained after fall of the Soviet Union confirmed that the KGB was infiltrating. The methods that McCarthy used were reprehensible, but he was right about the problem.
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Demonization of the pocket knife
perdidochas replied to fred8033's topic in Open Discussion - Program
Outdoors, Unless you live in a strange school district, you are greatly exaggerating. A student with a knife, unless used threateningly, will not get any police attention at all. In strict schools, the student would be suspended for several days regardless of circumstances (or type of knife). In reasonable schools, if the student turned in the knife to an adult voluntarily (i.e. discovered he accidentally had it in his bookbag or jacket, and told the adult immediately, not due to another student turning him in), the knife would be taken up until the parent could pick it up. Other schools/circumstances vary. -
I'd tell her to take it to the council.
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Demonization of the pocket knife
perdidochas replied to fred8033's topic in Open Discussion - Program
Zero tolerance replaces judging cases individually with treating all cases the same. It means that the Boy Scout who uses the same backpack for school and scouting gets the same punishment for having his boy scout pocketknife in his backpack as the gangbanger who has a switchblade in his pocket. It is a misapplication of justice. That said, happily, it's going away. Administrators (at least in the local system) are allowed to look at the entire situation, not just mindlessly apply a regulation. Zero tolerance results in less respect for the disciplinary process. -
Demonization of the pocket knife
perdidochas replied to fred8033's topic in Open Discussion - Program
JDS, Actually "zero tolerance" predates 9/11/2001. For example, the American Bar Association had a working group on zero tolerance as early as 1996. Zero tolerance is going away in American schools. As well all know, it's impractical, and really doesn't work. -
Well, of Scoutfish's list of spoiled things, my sons only have one of those--one has a color TV with a gaming system (a Playstation 2, not the latest) in their room, the other a color TV with a DVD. Other than that, they have chores--dishes, laundry, occasional mopping, taking care of the bathroom they share, lawn mowing. They do have $100+ boots, but we got them on sale for under $70.
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Demonization of the pocket knife
perdidochas replied to fred8033's topic in Open Discussion - Program
Zero Tolerance as a policy is going away in the schools, thankfully. My wife is about to start her 5th year as an assistant principal, and they rejected zero tolerance around here before that time. -
I should add-stupid questions take a lot of work to create. Most questions aren't stupid, but middle schoolers can ask stupid questions, if they put their mind to it.
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SSScout: Anybody who says that "there is no such thing as a stupid question" has never taught middle school.