Thinking about starting a new troop

[LIBob]

Docdt,

I hear ya,

and I think you are doing everything right and for the right reasons.

 

I'm just saying that starting a troop is . . . well if starting a troop doesn't work, out then plan "B" should be to create a GREAT patrol.

 

B-P envisoined scouting as being patrol based. The earliet records of scouting (well at least the few of them that I have read,) reveal that B-P, William Boyce etc. constantly struggled to make things more "patrol based."

 

I'm guessing this is code for saying they wanted to take things out of the SM's hands and put them into the boys' hands. Of course it's only a guess, a very unlearned opinion. But I KNOW that the brief time I spent as a patrol leader (as happenstance had it I was quickly bumped up to SPL), were among the happiest, most "Tom Sawyerish" days of my life.

- we had bike hikes,

- we had fishing trips,

- we failed miserably, even "super-miserably" at building a raft.

 

 

Go with plan "A," and Godspeed you on your course, but don't burn any bridges. Plan "B" just, might be the greatest time of your son's life.