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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In time, being a member of the Boy Scouts will be viewed similarly to being in the KKK a few decades ago. Pan average person could do it for purely social reasons, but the organization has a backwards and discriminatory bent.  Your kids will be marked. [/quote]

Nah. As long as it's a place for socially awkward boys to go there will be a demand for it. Parents want their kids to fit in more than they want to make a statement.[/quote]

Yeah.  Neil Armstrong, President Ford, Justice Breyer, Robert Gates were all socially awkward.  [/quote]

[b]I see more SN boys in Scouting than in any other single activity. There is some structure and always a slew of parents attending events. All parents are expected to be authority figures so in theory there is better management of a group of kids. Of course, typically the den meetings and pack meetings are nothing short of chaos with brief stretches of organized activity. For having a place where their kid is accepted more easily than, for example, in a traditional sport, I doubt these parents are going to make a political stand. They play the "the national policies don't filter down to our pack/den level so we're OK with [/b]it" card.

What ARE you trying to say?  I've read your post three times.  Yes, some packs have SN kids.  Shockingly, some schools even have them.  My God, there may even be some SN kids living right on your own street.  Honestly. . .

There are even packs set up FOR SN kids only.

At the Cub Scout level, the meetings are chaotic but adults are in charge.  By the time you get into high school you most likely will be in a boy-lead troop meaning the Senior Patrol Leader, a high school student, is in charge of setting up and running the meeting himself.  The young men are, by then, all well-behaved.  They have helped each other in the Eagle scouts and everyone makes an attempt to attend every Eagle ceremony and dinner after.  It has been a wonderful experience for our DS, from cub years thru starting Eagle project now.  What "political stand" are you talking about?  BSA now allows gay boy scouts in.  Has the issue ever been discussed in our troop or amongst parents?  No.  is the troop open to a gay scout.  Yes.  So what's your beef about scouting.  It has completely changed my son's life.

So I don't think BS is going anywhere.[/quote][/quote]

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