RememberSchiff

Why not start your own topic?

Seeing some local news coverage today of the first day Jan 15 of the Early Adopter program .

With training yes.

Are scouts experiencing the Patrol Method? The Patrol method once referred to a fixed membership group of scouts, now if seems more dynamic or ad hoc for each activity - lead those you got?

I think a Girl Scout transferring in Boy Scouts would be stunned to be told she could not use power tools for her Eagle project that she had used for her Gold.

Yes, the BSA allows double even triple dipping of requirement credit but only within one Scouting organization.

We ran into this with a Civil Air Patrol transfer. With his Rank/Grade where should he start with advancement in BSA? What transfer credit should he given? He certainly had more wilderness survival training than most scouts.

I think @ItsBrian was referring to link(s) in @Dixit topic from yesterday. Hope this helps.

Maybe National expected "experienced scouts", certainly Eagle scouts, would return as Scouters and hence training would be a lesser priority?

Right, no FEMA Nuclear Blast Are You Ready link for you.

No Civil Defense poster for you then.

70+ years after Hiroshima and Nagaski, the hibakusa will tell you they survived. We try to save as many as we can.

I wonder if Hawaiian scouts will be distributing procedure updates to ballistic missile threats. “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” ...it was a false alarm which not everyone received. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/13/hawaii-residents-get-ballistic-missile-threat-messages/?utm_term=.6995d400f7fc

I found this but I don't know which "webinar" it is. At the end, the presenter says to the audience "There is no special training. This is Cub Scout Leader Training."

Good luck with your new challenge. Hope it is fun for all.

This is surprising. I would not guess that the BSA is an international brand. How much BSA-branded product is sold outside of the US? $75million sales with say 2million customers seems small taters. Am I missing something?

@cyphertext welcome to scouter.com

Stosh you like to be contrary so Syracuse may be your town, as I recall, the traffic lights are upside down. Green is on top, red on the bottom.

Not me. Good eye. I wonder if the BSA License Lawyers will defend the brand and send notice. Should there be a recall?

As you may recall some of my earlier posts, at one time we had 20+ adult leaders in a troop of 36-40 scouts. It didn't work, it was an adult-run outing club. Good riddance. What we have now does work, and yes I like a working scout-run troop. I gave my opinion about the risk regarding a troop mechanic, your attorney or attorneys feel different. Anyway, we agree to disagree, meaning each side has stated their positions and they are resolute. There is no need for further bickering, er argument I mean.

As presented, your system works for you while ours, a different system, works for us. We agree to disagree on approaches.

We agree to disagree.

We obviously prefer a small pool of trained BSA leaders and have found it is more conducive to a scout-run unit. Works for us. I will stick with my mechanic and his partner. I know him and trust him to protect my family as he has for 20+ years. I think your troop has good intentions but is greatly increasing your liability risk down the road, so to speak.

Glad it works for you, that would be the last thing we would do. Our SM carefully "encourages" only parents who understand the program (specifically this is not Cub Scouts and scout-run) to register as an adult leader. Our ASM, who is Outing Coordinator, selects from that pool, sort of like the start of the old Mission Impossible tv show. Just anybody and everybody registering as an adult leader without any knowledge of Boy Scouts is asking for trouble. Can an adult still register without taking YPT? Yes, how dumb is that. Oh , within 30 days, you are supposed to .... Train, test and pass, then register. Sort of like Show, Tell, Do. If the troop said that I had to go to another mechanic to inspect my family car or pay $30 when the state charges $7, bye.

IMHO, families will view their BSA unit as "tour guides" and hold the BSA and unit responsible for anything that goes wrong on any outdoor activities. Perhaps when a scout activity transforms into a family activity, the SM pulls the plug on any troop/BSA involvement. No troop gear used, no discussion/planning of Family Outing on troop time, not on the troop calendar, no advancement, .... For a scout activity, the SM/TC needs to manage the adult herd to only those needed for supervision and logistics, similar to the way schools chaperone class trips. My $0.02