When older scouts Eagle, it can leave a hole in the Troop. With a gap between older scouts and younger ones, with mixed ages in between, the troop faces some leadership challanges. Lucky for us we have two new Eagle’s who have decided to become ASM’s.
As with life, sometimes we all get in a rut, stagnate, or however you want to discribe it. The Scoutmasters have decided to do a little reorganizing, but not re-inventing the wheel. We have come up with a plan to make the meetings more interesting, fun, and challenging for the boys. We are still boy run, but with more involvement between Scoutmasters and Scouts.
Getting the Scouts back on track with patrol method, Scout Skills, patrol competitions, troop projects, and more. It’s time to get out of our rut and back to Scouting. We have realized that we have to change things up from time to time to keep every ones interest, scouts and adults alike.
To start with the patrols have gotten uneven, so we have reorganized from five patrols to three, and will let the scouts rename their patrols to form unitity, with new patrol yells and flags.
Tomorrow night we will have a PLC with the newly elected and discuss the changes. We also have plans for parents to get them more involved in the Troop meetings.
All the Scoutmasters and our Committee Chair are excited about making our Troop strong and full of scout spirit again.
When Older Scouts Eagle
September 26, 2010 by buffaloeagle
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