Scouting Maverick: Scout Better

Author: Aren Cambre

  • Linked-troop model is usually best for new girl-troops

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    UPDATE (2023-04-05): BSA used misinformation and toxic, racist, and sexist folklore to ban a coed-troop option. This is wrong and must stop. The right option is to allow coed. ORIGINAL: BSA’s Boy Scout program, for ages 11-17, includes girls starting February 1, 2019. It also gets a new name: Scouts BSA. While Scouts BSA troops…

  • Stop removing hats at meals

    Stop removing hats at meals

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    EDIT: Kudos to Camp Trevor Rees-Jones. At 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Winter Camps, there was not once a prohibition on wearing hats at meals! Stop removing hats at (most) meals. It’s silly! This tradition may be centuries old. Back then, hats shielded you from grit and grime. Polluted air or dirty work…