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SMPodcast 64
Rocky Mtn trip in ??April??. This is WAY TOO late!!! Not quite on point but working on it. Very scary. Boys need LOTS of lead time for activities like this.
Camp Daniel Boone, Asheville, NC for high adventure bases.
Camp LaNoChe in Florida for several interesting things. High adventure on the side. Kodiak week long trip on the Suwannee River.
Scout badge and memorizing the Oath and Law. Every Webelos Scout already knows it. Most other new Scouts just memorize it after reading the requirement. I’ve never had a problem with this. It seems obvious to most Scouts and parents.
The Scoutmaster is a key person in maintaining quality. For MBs, however, I agree that he should usually refer it to the district.
Scoutmaster Podcast 65
Questions.
I always have an opinion 🙂
1. You’ve really only have two options:
a. Fire him. The institutional head and the COR and the CM can help you. It’s their job. If he needs to go then he needs to go.
b. Work with him. Couldn’t say what to do unless I knew him. My wife is a twin. Here is something that I learned: You CAN’T date twins. You can date a twin, but NOT twins. That helps a lot, right. What’s he talking about. Well, a Scout Troop can have only ONE scoutmaster. Only one. It’s the nature of the beast. I could imagine a troop that might have two committee chairs, splitting some of the responsibilities. It probably wouldn’t work most of the time but it might. It won’t work for SM. The Scouts and the boy leaders must know who the SM is. He can delegate some things but everyone needs to know who is the SM.
When I retired from SM of Troop 705 I was very deliberate about how I participated after that. I joined the committee, helped out a little with the Eagle Scout process and went on a couple of backpacking trips. We went on a 50 miler every other year and I helped the Venture Patrol with that for about 6 years. That was about it, and maybe too much.
2. a. If it’s drugs, and you’re sure, then he is out. Some other illegal things also.
b. Abusing someone and it’s in the legal system, then he’s out.
c. Fooling around, goofing off, etc. You have to deal with what you know and how it is going to affect your troop. It’s ok to work with one Scout but if he is going to be a detriment to the entire program then something will have to be done.
3. Kansas – Philmont is a short days drive!! Huh? ATA if within a days drive.
4. Disallow “reply to all”. Suggest no “reply to all”. It’s sort of like ignoring a troll. The Troop just needs to try and ignore those who do this. The best way is to run all communication through one account with a blind distribution list. That way, if a reply comes back the Troop leadership can deal with it. By all means, try to restrict having things distributed so that someone can just hit “Reply to All” and start a flame war.
I have a rule of thumb that I learned in Yellowstone. I you meet some one in the parking lot, they are Americans. If you are on a trail more than a mile from the parking lot they are Germans, but if you are in the back country you will find Boy Scouts from UT because they are too cheap to pay the daily campground fee.
There are alot of National Parks in the Rockies not to far from the plain states where 5 days in the backcountry offer enough High Adventure for any one and since the park isn’t going anywhere the Scouts will take thier kids to relive the adventure.
My wife of all people went to Yellowstone with her Explorer Troop in the 70’s and brings it up each time we drive between Old Faithfull and Yellowstone Lake.