Davej775

Even if you confront the CM with documentation and the Dr. to explain you medical situation, the accusing rumor spreading CM will NEVER acknowledge his errors. His character flaw of meglomania permits him to always be right and to discount everyone else around them. He is the true psychopath and I can't imagine how he's tolerated by the other Scout leadership. These character types do not see the positive developing Scout as a a goal in Scouting, only the boy in their power to use for his own glorification, "I'm the boys' LEADER!" You need to let the CO know what went on and Council also. You need to find another Pack and bring the Cubs whose parents were fired. You have a legal avenue for the charge of slander. You might want to persue this as you have been maliciously hurt by this individual as others have formed an opinion of you by his slander and have acted upon it. YIS, Dave J!

This month's OUTDOOR LIFE magazine has a very good Cub Scouting Article. Dave J!

Our DE is always at Roundtables. A quality Roundtable is priceless for information and fellowship. I took a hiatus from this board at or around the "Wheeler" discussions. Looking in now at this time I see, perhaps, like the groundhog on Feb 2nd seeing his shadow, its still cold and unpleasant on this forum. Behavior here as in camp, and in the conduct of our daily lives is defined by the Scout Law. Anything otherwise is just bad behavior. Steal a penny from your employer, or steal millions....its still theft. I thought this forum was for getting advise, giving advise, getting answers or giving answers and support. Any contributer offering otherwise simply needs to find another place to see their offerings in print. I just read here that spel czech isn't used as often as a few other individuals want. We're not all rocket scientists, we're not all idiots, either. Don't get all hung up off the point. This "getting specific" isn't just here. Look at our former leader and the dialog of what "is" is and means. This from the highest office: shame. As some of you already know I work in a prison. We have a very big law library, filled with hundreds of volumes redefining the Ten Commandments. Really, why does it need to redefined? Don't do this to this forum. Stick to the forum for help, to give and to get and in the Scouting spirit. Dave J! I guess I'll look in in about six weeks?

My son has Asberger's, too. He's high end functioning and a little genius. Scouting was tough at first for all the above reasons. I'm just writing this to let you know to stay in Scouting and find a good leader. Any good Scout leader will help. There's been lots of Asbies in the past that went through Scouting before it was recognized as a specific titled condition. he Scout law has a lot to do with this. My son has grown socially far more due to Scouting than he would have otherwise. Unfortunately he doesn't share the degree of social interaction at school with non-Scouts as with Scouts, but he now has the ability to do so if he wanted to. We're still in Scouting after 4 years; and Jesse has been inovative and excelled in many projects that the Troop does, and this has smoothed the way a lot. For what its worth I'll add that Jesse has always been fine being alone and it was I who pushed the Scouts and tried to get him socially involved. The family services psychiatrist told me it was I who had the "problem and needed to be fixed" by understanding Asberger's and that it was a situation like having blue or brown eyes. It won't ever get "better." I was told that there's a very strong possibility that he will never marry or have even a few good friends. Of course I'm the one anguishing over this possibility having a great wife and friends. I had to learn and adapt to that fact. Jesse has always been very happy and is fine with his situation. To my surprise he went out and got a job working fo a neighbor. I was understanding when I was told that 3 girls asked him to the prom and he refused! I didn't push what I would have done: taken then all! Now if I have a problem to be solved at home involving engineering of any sort I would ask Jesse to solve it and he has, sometimes with solutions that go beyond the envelope. The latest surprise was his final art project being selected for permanent display in the new high school. The only one out of 80+ entrants. I never even saw him pick up a crayon or play with clay to do art, always doing some engineering with sticks and string. Every day now brings surprises. Well I wanted to say give Scouts a chance for the both of you. It made my son blossem into an exceptional young man and maintained my sanity by getting me involved as an ASM! YIS, DAve J!

Now you've learned something about human nature, the dark side. Fall back on our Scout Motto, 'Be Prepared!" Its more than just remembering to bring those waterproof matches to camp!! YIS Dave J775!

I also believe that a merit badge councellor for riflery must be a NRA certified instructor. I responded this info to an adult youth leader who asked how one becomes a MB councellor. The adult youth leader snarled up his face and scolded me for pulling his leg, "That's crazy!", he said, and continued that he "wouldn't have anything to do with an organization that said he couldn't be a councellor. I've been shooting for 30 years, I know all about guns!" he replied. As I mentioned, "shooting doesn't necessarily mean knowing all that need to be known....." But he had walked away from me by that time, insulted at my comment. I've been looking all over the web for this exact information and I cannot find it. How about archery, swimming, all these activites have organizations with certified instructor ratings. Could someone here please direct the rest of us, me, to those sites. Thanks so much. I need some sort of official documentation for MB Instructor criteria. Thanks, Dave J775, ASM, 584.

How can Scoutmaster slide thru training to become a Scoutmaster and have been with these boys all this time prior to becoming Scoutmaster not be discovered as the individual driving Scouts out of the troop? Was she hired out of the blue? I want to refer to an earlier statement somewhere here about 'fairness and the law.'Something like fairness is point of view, not necessarily the law. In any arguement the winner winning would consider the judgment is fair. The loser in the arguement would consider losing unfair. Perhaps the older Scouts finding out that having to keep after the younger Scouts for completing choirs is unfair and not fun as they haven't developed a method to make it fun. Only when a senior Scout can have the junior Scout follow thru on an unpleasant choir, as in washing dishes, and look foward to the opportunity to do the dishes can we say the senior Scout has developed leadership skills. Perhaps having followed thu on this they might thank this SM for her perserverence on their training, following the law, if that is the problem issue here. Perhaps she's over compensating with the troop in order to deal with her son's affliction which may be clouding her manner of leadership. In any case, the CO needs to concern themselves with what's happening. Dave J775., ASM

What happens when parents and leaders have bought equipment for the troop in the past, never submitted receipts for reimbursment and just donated for the cause as the troop thrived. Now the troop is all but dissolved due to very poor recruitment and all of the Scouts, now 17 and older, have moved on or are moving on. I have been approched to return Dutch ovens, fry pans,gas lanters, and lp gas cylanders they had let the troop use while it was active. The Church Budget had always been only $100.00 for the Scouts per year! I gave as did other parents, leaders, many times over as $100.00 per year hardly covers anything and is a token amount. Do I return the requested items listed here, to the origional owners or say, "Sorry, they were donated to the Church, the C.O." Is there a statute of limitations on ownership here? DaveJ775, ASM. Thanks for your responses.

Dave J! is sorry for the error in mixing up uniform designers and apoligies to Oscar de la Rente. I also read that I wore 'leggings', not spats. Thank you for the correction! YIS, Dave J!

Run a background check. It might cost $10.00 at the local Police Dept. Isn't it a requirement anyway? Any warrents will show up and the rest will be history. Why take chances where there's doubt? If he passes the check, his comment was just inapropriate. If he fails the check he'll be picked up and somebody like me, in Corrections, will be feeding him lunch. Good hunting! Dave J!

This is an interesting thread! I hardly ever come here, having arrived, I'm jumping in. Wheeler says it for me. My specific observation is the uniform as BP invisioned it, 'used military uniforms that are cheap and wear well. The Scout hat is certainly the Campaign hat of the Doughboys, WWl. I have before brought up the fact that my current uniform without badges etc, designed by Ralph Lauren( at what great cost, I wonder) looks almost exactly like my USMC dress uniform I wore daily, while working in HQ CO. Camp Lejeune. It was designed to get away from the military image? I also learned to march in file and rank as a boy Scout in the 50's. It was FUN! We marched in parades in town and I loved even wearing the spats, and bloused trowsers. In the field spats are extremely valuable considering ticks, spiders, crawly things of all sorts. Too bad, not available today; and that marching is out of the program, I read somewhere, here on the forum. Why is the Military being dismissed? I see it erode away quietly, just as Wheeler has seen other aspects fade away. The Scouts was about making boys into men with leadership skills, strong faith, and be able to think for themselves. What Wheeler has discovered is that that isn't necessarily so today. One of the results of this situation is the growing of other Scouting Programs, Which I also read about here on the forum. This new program, not our BSA, as we know it, will be the future, I believe and encourage for boys to learn how to be men. Davej!

I work in Corrections and in my facility we're allowed to shift trade. I also work rotating shifts. I luck out on 8-4. So on those other Fridays I can elect to shift trade or pay out $125.00 for another C/O to work for me. At times, camping gets real expensive! Dave J!

'57 and those Scout pants had pockets that could actually fold up the top and snap down so the pocket knif wouldn't fall out. My Scout knife had those blade locks, it wasn't a lock blade, and it had a special blade just for mumbly peg. WoW! A few words, images, and I'm a Tenderfoot again, Troop 35, Northport, NY. While at out Winter Camporee this last week-end, going thru March's Scouter Magazine one of the 10 essentials for survival was .....A fixed blade sheath knife!

"Not for hanging on a belt.." When you buy the official BSA belt a brass attachment with a snap comes with it. I always thought it was for the Scouts official BSA folding knife. Well, I guess you could hang a compass from it, after all, the brass will not have a negative effect on the magnetic qualities of the compass. ...Semper Paratis, Dave J!

our troop is a Latter day Saints troop and all the adults a r called 'Brother.' I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned as 70% Scout troops across America are LDS. So, I'm Brother Jacobs at Scouts. On the street, or by the campfire, I'll be Mr. Jacobs also which is fine. If I hear "Jake," I know I'm being addressed by a parolee or a probationer that was in my unit and again, noting that 70% figure, has a 70% chance of returning to jail. And yes, one of my former Scouts did show up in my housing unit as an inmate for a while. Scouting doesn't reach everyone, I suppose..... Dave J!, Brother Jacobs, Jake!