cricket

Adding my congratulations to Justin. I have several Eagle Court of Honors to attend in the next couple of months, and I'll raise a glass of fruit punch in your honor.

I need to make an edit, but I don't see how to do it, so I'm reposting.. "I was on her side when all this started, cricket, so apparently you failed to read the entire thread making your comment totally invalid. No, she never claimed her son was a "little angel", but she did seem to blame everything on the adults. If that were true, this thread woulda ended eight months ago!" Nope, wrong again. I've been reading this thread from the beginnin, and I never said that you were or were not on her "side". That's not even relevant to you calling her son her "little angel". In fact, I've known about this sitution long before it was brought to the scouter forum from reading about it on the CC site.

"I was on her side when all this started, cricket, so apparently you failed to read the entire thread making your comment totally invalid. No, she never claimed her son was a "little angel", but she did seem to blame everything on the adults. If that were true, this thread woulda ended eight months ago!" Nope, wrong again. I've been reading this thread from I never said that you were or were not on her "side" in the beginning. That's not even relevant to you calling her son her "little angel". In fact, I've known about this sitution long before it was brought to the scouter forum from the CC site.

Between the issues she had with her son's troop and the tone of this thread, I'm not the least bit surprised she's not posted for some time. Again, I never read one inappropriate or rudely worded post by mdsummer. Even when the posts got tough, she responded time and time again with gratitude for the help she was receiving. Yet, evmori can't make a simple post regarding his take on this matter without slipping in a snide remark toward her. She never once claimed her son was a "little angel". I'm really taken aback at some of the ridicule she's received at the hands of people who consider themselves scouters. A rereading of the scout laws might be, strike that, is in order. We expect our sons to live those laws, how about the adults that are among the biggest influences in their lives set the example? I can appreciate that many of you spent a lot of time reaching out to help mdsummer, and you feel slighted because she's not followed up. However, we all have feelings, and given the situation of a boy who went so far as completing his Eagle requirements including a project, this whole situation has to be very painful. Possibly, she finally reached her limit, once the constructive criticism turned to ridicule, fun and games.

I hope it's okay to post a link. Start at post 55, and she uses the same screen name as this board. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/564847-quit-not-quit-boy-scouts-2.html?highlight=eagle+scout

I've read this message board for years, but have always been able to find answers to my scout questions in various threads without asking my own. I have two boys who are have aged out of Boy Scouts and are in college. Both are Eagle Scouts. After all these years, I finally felt the need to register to respond to the April Fool's accusations. I've been following this thread from the beginning because it spun off another message board, College Confidential, which I frequent. A poster from that board recommended this board to her, so this wasn't an April Fool's idea. She first started posting about this problem in Nov of '08. She left that board once she posted her question here, since this board is dedicated to scouts with much more knowledgeable posters. I have to say, along the way, I felt mdsummer had much tougher skin than I have. I would have quit posting ages ago, and relied on the people who were helping via PM. She always presented herself in a very appreciative and polite manner. I think there have been a few posters on here have been down right rude to her, and I'm not surprised she never posted the outcome.