Sentinel947

We've got a long way to go to the bottom.

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Welcome!

Its like having a soccer/football(for our european friends) team where you let all your players use their hands and then tell the ref, "The game just needs to get with the times!"

Names of partys and countries don't always reveal their ideologies. Much of the Communist countries were "Democratic Peoples Republics" despite being neither democratic or republics. The Nazis were the National Socialist German Workers Party which sounds Socialist in name but was a fascist government.

The plight of refugees is in no way minimized by the fact a bunch of adults are threatening a teenager with death for the grand crime of disagreeing with them.

Schiff, That terrfies me.

I think it would be ideal for the young man to finish it. Its an important life lesson. But if he were to refuse, then yes the Troop should take it on.

Really makes me want to thru hike, but I just landed a job at a company I really like.

I think OP has responded with more details in post 31. With a second occurance of this issue I'm not sure if I'd keep him in the troop. It shows a lack of interest in changing his behavior. If his parents were belligerant with the previous SM, then I could not reasonably expect to be a partner to them in addressing these issues. More generally, the age of the Scout matters in these situations. If a 14 year old gets in trouble with drugs or in an altercation, there is alot of time to reform behavior. Their advancement to Eagle is a possibility to me. If you have a 17 year old Scout, maybe not. Depends on the nature of the problem and if its the first time. It depends. I'm not a huge fan of zero tolerance policies. It forces me to go with a one size fits all solution and constrains my ability to make problems better.

We still have two Assistant Scoutmasters that were SM and ASM when I joined the Troop in 2005. This is fairly typical I think.

Ladies and Gents, its coming whether we like it or not.

Relevant historical thread. http://scouter.com/index.php/topic/26349-eagle-and-weed/ Focus on supporting the family and the Scout getting help. Scouting and advancement should take a backseat. This Scout has definetly broken some rules, but our Scouts are young men who will have some screw ups. Best of luck to you and your Scout.

Can't say I'm surprised. For now each diocese is allowed to decide if they want to continue having a Boy or Girl Scout troop.

I'm in the minorities of millenials that doesn't use twitter. But as you know, twitter popularized the # because it helps their algorithims tracking. No other reason. I don't use Twitter because I rarely put my thoughts out on facebook, so why add another service I won't use.

Hashtags help twitter associate similiar tweets. More or less the hashtags let you make your post likely to pop up if somebody is searching for or posting under a similiar hashtag.

1 campout a month is perfect. The positions you have coming to the PLC is perfect. If you need the other positions present to get things planned then invite them. PLCs generally involve planning the next few months of outings, planning the next few months of meetings, and resolving any issues that might come up. Best of luck to you! I was in your shoes before. SPL is a challenging but rewarding opportunity.

If I end up taking on SM in my troop, I would be the first Eagle Scout SM our troop would have. All the SM's I've had as a youth or volunteered with as an adult were NOT Eagle Scouts. They were fine Scouters. We had very few adult Eagle Scouts involved with the Troop. I can think of 3 others besides myself. @mashmaster: use your CC and or an ASM to run interference for you. Your job as SM is to work with the boys. Anything that comes between you and that is something you should consider delegating to somebody else. I constantly talk up "the process" with our parents. The point of being a Scout is not because having it "on your resume will help you get into College." But moreso "the skills and experiences you get from Scouting will make you a better rounded individual, which will help your son in life." Period, full stop. The sad part of it is, if a parent is pushing their son through the program, he is probably not enjoying himself. If he's not enjoying himself, he's going to miss out on a lot of the benefits of the program. Rank advancement and merit badges are not a means to themselves. If you get an ultra hi speed, low drag pushed by mommie and daddy kid, the parents are robbing their son of much of the benefits of the program. Those parents don't cheat me, they don't cheat the troop, they don't cheat the BSA. They cheat themselves and their sons. We had a Scout who really hated Scouts. I offered to talk with him and his parents about how things were going, but he didn't want to challenge his parents. He did the bare minimum everything and disappeared as soon as he finished his Eagle. I feel for him, because his time and energy would have been better spent doing something else with his teenage years. Scouting is a wonderful program and I'm very passionate about promoting it, (as almost all of us here are.) but it's not for every kid.

I went in 2011 and 2015. Both times we did Baldy. Both times the logistics team at Philmont HQ told us we had to check in at Baldy town before going up the mountain.

Its also posted in the most quiet underused corner of the site. Lol

Sounds awesome! But we all know how things have changed in the name of managing risk. Casuality of lots of inexperienced hikers and sue happy folks.

@@RememberSchiff, There is only one at Philmont I know of. Summiting Baldy has a time you must check in at Baldy Town Camp. Philmonts reason is so that crews have a reasonable time to summit and descend the mountain before frequent afternoon thunderstorms.

I've been to Philmont twice. Once as a Crew leader in 2011 , once as a crew advisor in 2015. It really depends. Is your crew doing a big "peak bagging" type trip where your crew is doing 80+ miles? If they don't care about the program at the next camp/camps they are hiking through, then a wake up time is not as important. If your crew is really keen on doing a certain activity at a camp they are staying in/hiking through then they need to consider what time programs generally end at philmont (I want to say it's 4 pm but I could be wrong...they also need to consider there may be a line...) Most backpackers generally walk between 1 and 3 miles per hour depending on the terrain, weather, temperature. Depending on the section of philmont that is something to important to consider. Breaks are another thing to consider. With a crew your group is generally going to be taking breaks. This depends on again on the terrain and weather. I would sit down with my crew leader and navigator at night and ask them questions. "Do you know where we are going tomorrow?" "What route are we taking?" "How long do you think it will take us to get there?" "What activities do you plan to do?" Based on that, they would decide when we needed to get up. The earliest we woke up on my 2015 was 5:30 AM. That was the day we hiked up Baldy Mountain, which has a time restriction on how late you can begin the summit. Unfortunately, with stuff like this, there is no perfect answer. It's always some flavor of "it depends." One thing is for certain, your Scouts will love Philmont.

If there was a broad concensus we might. We try very hard to not appear to be censoring posts. Another option is to "Mark as solved". I have done this to your post. Maybe flagging the right answer is a better way to accomplish that?

Based on @@MattR s post I thought this would be a fun thread to read! I'll start. In 2010 I was a Troop Guide. We had 20 crossovers. 7 years later I'm an ASM and 9 are currently with the Troop as Seniors. They each earned Eagle. The 9th finished two weeks ago. I've received many hugs from crying moms and strong handshakes from proud dads. Scouts have called me out as a role model and mentor in their lives in their speeches at Eagle Court of Honor. So far in my short life, its probably the proudest I have ever been. Its made all the trials and tribulations of the last 7 years totally worth it.