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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Boy Scouts similar with this everyone needs to be involved and volunteer dynamic? I had been thinking about having DS join (2nd grade) but he has a Saturday activity and 3-4 activities during the week, so I’m not sure we’d be able to attend every BS event.

This is not to say OP’s situation is not unfair! I think she’s done more than her share. [/quote]

It depends on the Troop/Pack in Scouts BSA. My sons Troop has 65 active Scouts, at different levels of activity. We don't need all of those Scouts to have active parents. We do need a minimum of 3 adult leaders, with proper training, for any over night activity. Some activities we look for 4 adults, like backpacking, skiing, hiking, and water sports. That allows us to maintain 2 deep leadership in case of an emergency. Two adults can go with the Scout and two adults stay with the remaining Scouts. More adult volunteers mean that we have 6 adults who have completed Wilderness First Aid, a requirement for any activity that will be 1 mile from a road, so backpacking, water sports, high adventure camps, and the like. This makes it easier for us to plan activities and spread out the load on the Adult volunteers. We have plenty of parents who do nothing and a good number who help with organizing one event a year. Then you have the Committee and Scoutmaster/Assistant Scout Masters who are more active out of necessity. We also realize burn out so we rotate the Scoutmaster and Committee Chair position every 2 years.

Cub Scouts is a different beast and depends on the Pack. Parents are allowed to drop off starting in 2nd grade, most of the parents hang out at the meetings because wrangling 8-10 2nd graders is a task in and of itself. Our Pack had a rule that parents helped run one Den meeting with the Den Leader, that meant there would be 3 adults to help with the wrangling. Parents have to camp with their kids for Cub Scouts.

Activity wise, all of Scouts BSA is based on what the kid wants to do. We have kids in our Troop that are fully in on Scouts and knocked out the first 4 ranks and a ton of merit badges in their first year. We have kids who have been in the Troop for 3 years and have completed 4 merit badges and one rank. Kids can be as active as they want and do the things that they want to do. For some that is everything, I would say there are 40 kids who are fully engaged in the Troop and attend most of the meetings and activities. [/quote]

Thanks this is helpful. I think DS would WANT to do every Scouts activity but he is busy and things like sports teams don’t even have a set game time or day until all the sign up periods for activities are way over. I see these kids who seem to be in 2 sports every season and Scouts and I don’t know how - I guess we know a couple kids on each sport team who signed up and just didn’t show up to most games and practices. I assume because they had activity conflicts. I don’t know if BS troops are ok with this level of involvement? [/quote]

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