Perfect Attendance Award

[eagle90]

I have always understood that the perfect attendance award was for a scout who attends every troop meeting for a year. But unless I missed it in the Guide to Advancement, I see no requirements. Can a troop make their own requirements? For example, a scout who attends every campout and extra activity during a year? What do you think?

 

Dale

[ScoutNut]

The requirements for the attendance award are completely up to the unit.

[blw2]

I've read here, or someplace, before that some make it as you've described

but some will set some arbitrary thresholds, such as attend x% of all troop meetings & y% of all camps.....

or maybe all troop meetings and x% of the camps

or all troop meetings and no outing requirement.....

 

I looked into it a few years back because my son, then a Tiger actually did get perfect attendance, all den meetings, all pack meetings, and all outings and camps..... but our unit didn't participate in it. By the time I was able to sort it out it was the following year, and seemed, well silly to back track it.

[blw2]

I've read here before that some make it as you've described

some will set some arbitrary thresholds, such as attend x% of all troop meetings & y% of all camps.....

 

I looked into it a few years back because my son, then a Tiger actually did get perfect attendance, all den meetings, all pack meetings, and all outings and camps..... but our unit didn't participate in it. By the time I was able to sort it out it was the following year, and seemed, well silly to back track it.

[Torchwood]

If the unit program is run correctly, this is an unnecessary award. You want Scouts to show up because they get something of value from attending. Period.