Webelos to Scout transition times

[Armymutt]

49 minutes ago, NDW5332 said:

I'm a terrible person at gussing the age of a kid.  I flipped through my old highschool yearbook and saw my old SPL. My God, he looked 45 years old in 1991, and he had just turned 17.  A couple o years ago, Our troop now had an SPL  at 13 and our outgoing SPL just turned 18, so 5 years is a lot of time to mature and grow into Did you speak with the CO Troop's SM?to address your concerns?  Regarding the lack of motivation on tasks, what kind of tasks.   Was is a true lack of motivation, or was it a skill set gap and lack of training.   Were the Scouts "Voluntold" they'd have to help, or was it cheerful service? I find that volunteers are generally more motivated than kids that are told they have to give up their weekend.  Did you ask the Scouts what was going on?  How they felt about how the day camp was going, what did they think the adults could have been doing better?

I don't know the SMs for all the troops I had.  Each Scout volunteered and had to go through an interview process for Day Camp, so there was a barrier to entry.  Not a significant one, but enough to dissuade some.  Tasks were things like help the older Scouts keep water jugs full and help out the volunteers at stations.  Not exactly hard things.  Instead, I'd find them wandering off to hang out in a back room.