The Far East Council has units in Australia, and is looking to start units in New Zealand, where the school year starts in February and runs to December. Transatlantic Council has a Pack in Zimbabwe, which is similar.
Do Cubs there run a modified schedule to sync their Cub Scouting year to the local school calendar, or do they keep to the American schedule, and run program across two local school years?
Just a curiosity I had.
… We’re in a plane over the mountains when the pilot came over the intercom and said. “Ladies and gentlemen. I have some bad news. We are having a major mechanical issue. The plane is going down and there’s nowhere to land before it crashes. And more bad news. We only have three parachutes. Since I’m the pilot I feel I should go down with the plane”
The President jumps up and says. “I’m the President. I must survive”. So he grabs a parachute and jumps out. The lady jumps up saying. “I’m the worlds smartest woman, I must survive”. She grabs a bag and jumps.
The Rabbi tells the scout. “ Son, I’ve had a long and satisfying life. I give you the last parachute so you can do some good in this world”. The Scout says “ Rabbi. Don’t worry about it, The nice Blonde lady jumped out with my backpack”.
Their last handful of releases have been mid. What do y’all wish they would bring back? I’ve noticed on Twitter people are saying they sold out and ditched the essence that makes them, them. I just think they want to be big in the US. What do y’all think? What’s the tea 🍵
Before I say anything, I was fortunate to be in a troop that protected kids from sexual preparatory and myself nor any other kid in my troop was harmed, sadly I’ve met a lot of people who weren’t so lucky. This post is not commentary on that but I figured it warranted that preface to avoid comments around that and more focus on the survivalist side of scouting.
Admittedly I was very embarrassed being in Boy Scouts in the 90s and told barely anyone. I did not get my eagle, which yes I do now regret as the only thing I had left was my Eagle Scout project which looking back on could have just raked some leaves at a school for goodness sake.
Anyways, I learned way more than I realized as I am beginning to teach my partner about it and today we go out so she can start an emergency car kit and her first bug out bag! I’m more excited for this than I was for Christmas.
It got me thinking, my favorite badge was wilderness survival and I’d like to get back into that.
Are there groups, classes, organizations you’d recommend not just for teaching skill sets but also just going out and camping along more wilderness survival style?
I’ll google it and yes, I am reviewing posts here in the past, just figured I might get some insight from former scouts who may have good recommendations!
Thanks!
Edit: grammar
Hello there. I was doing some research on Boy Scouts Of America, and I found out that they did not allow atheists to participate. In scouting rules, it states that a member must profess a belief in God.
However, rules actually don't define what is meant by the term "God". Confusingly, the organisation claims to "not allow atheists", yet allows members of atheistic religions to participate, such as Jains and Buddhists. (yes, I know some Buddhists believe in deities, but others don't).
Do you find this hypocritical? Should I e-mail them for clarification? Can you think of any semantic ways they could justify this?
Thanks.
