Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy

How many parents/girls visit to learn about your BSA troop?

 

This time of year is advancement time when kids go from Cub Scouts to BSA. I'd say this year we've had a good dozen looking and visiting the troop. We have a mild connection to a pack, so that's a lot of it, but there have been some from other places. We aren't actively recruiting right now other than girls (we need a few more for a viable girl troop), so that's a pretty decent number.

 

Back in the late 80s New Jersey, stayed in scouts almost all the way through high school. Our troop was basically a camping and hiking club.

Looking back on it now, I now realize an essential truth. Wives will let their husbands out of the house for the weekend time and time again if they're with their kids.

 

Very true.

 

My son’s Eagle Scout ceremony is this weekend so what a wonderful backdrop with the news.

Agree on Pinewood Derby. The kids with engineering dads always win, anyway.

I wasn’t that pro-Scout when he was a Cub Scout at age 7 but he saw it through to Eagle. It’s a nice thing to have on college apps. I’m honored that he finished it.

 

I knew a couple guys who went through and became Eagle Scouts. When we all started Cub Scouts in 3rd grade or so, there were over 100.
They were OK guys, a little strait-laced, but pretty cool.

 

I was in the Boy Scouts for six years. Never had a bad experience. Learned from some good scoutmasters. I feel awful that too many kids had the worst possible outcome to their experience. There's nothing wrong with the program or the message. Just the fucking assholes who perverted it, just like anything else assholes pervert.