cdroberts94

Thanks for all these thoughts. This is not a matter of the kids claiming they earned them - it's the den leaders just submitting that everyone who went to camp earned it. I think it is sort of a passed down thing - last year someone said they all got it, so this year it was just assumed. The committee chair's husband looked at the form that was passed out at one camp and it had astrisks by the Leave No Trace which stood for " Achievements marked with *** may need additional work to complete.". The other camp gave no written information at all (that's the one my son attended.) No parent attended more than one day so it would take some time to get to the bottom of if they possibly did everything but their badge/achievement at camp. I have got to get the awards tomorrow for presentation on Thursday and do not want to use pack money for 15 awards that many of the kids really didn't earn. At least if someone had said they couldn't earn it again, that would solve the short term problem and then the other issue could be discussed at the next pack committee meeting. The ironic thing is that I don't see any record of purchase of the patches last year so I'm wondering if it was entered in the data base but they were not presented. Carole

Thanks for the reply. I would have to buy 15 awards if we re-award them, so that is a good point about the cost of them. I also am having issues with whether they were really earned, particularly for the ones that got them last year. I know some, for instance, have not earned the Webelos badge that is needed. It's my understanding that the Cub Scout World Conservation Award can only be earned once. Also, we have been told that the scouts can only earn two belt loops (one as a cub and one as a Webelo). That has also been an issue as kids were expecting to get them again from camp.

We have den leaders who have submitted that their scouts earned the leave no trace award this summer (I think camp told them they'd earned it.) The only thing is they earned it at camp last year. I'm the new awards chair and am just learning. It doesn't seem to me that this should be awarded twice, especially since you can only wear one patch, but I can't find any place that specifically says you can only earn it once. Carole