Here's what my Scouts do to honor America.

Every meeting begins and ends with a flag ceremony. The parade the flags, do the pledge of allegiance, recite the Scout oath and law. They learn about the history and parts of the flag.

During our Pack campouts, we usually do a flag retirement ceremony. I usually have the older Cub Scouts lead it.

Every year for Memorial Day we go to a local cemetery and place flags on the graves of veterans. We join with hundreds of other Scouts in the area.





At Christmas, we all meet up and place wreaths on the graves of veterans as well.



This past year the Cub Scouts also made cards and we sent them to a ship deployed for Christmas.

My experience is what 99% of Scouts experience. Good on you for finding the one outlier to judge everyone by.

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My experience is what 99% of Scouts experience. Good on you for finding the one outlier to judge everyone by.

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Even here in uberliberal Austin, where I was a Pack Leader & am currently an Assistant Scout Master we have done nothing like that.
Our Troop leans towards slightly less athletic & a little more nerdy than the average group of Middle/High School boys. But we also have football players, wrestlers, & lacrosse players in the mix... it is a good blend.

What BSA/Scouts America does at a national level has very little impact on the direction our troop takes outside of a procedural level. That's up to our Troop leadership. We do high adventure camps every year, we camp 1x per month & do some pretty cool stuff in general.

Don't let outlier events shape your judgement on the entire organization. (Though this is the fault of sensationalist news media about EVERYTHING and everyone should know better by now)

Troop committee chair. We brought the girls in three years ago, and it is fine. Same program, same expectations of all the kids. We are bringing this amazing program to everyone that wants it now. We work hard to teach these young folks about leadership, responsibility, etc. If you are worried about a name change, I guess I don't understand your thought process. But I would venture to guess that you are sitting on the sidelines judging without really knowing what is going on, or doing anything to help.

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OnlyForNow said:

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Indian princesses?

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Is that still a thing? We did Indian Guides growing up. My grandma still has a picture of my brother and I in our head bands full of feathers wearing our beads. I was Spotted Dog. My kids will find it one day and have to cancel me!

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They rebranded it "Y Princesses" and "Y Guides" many years ago. Did it with my daughters and it was great, but like most things, it boils down to the parents leading the group. I'm sure the same holds here.

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From what my sons' told me, they would not mix or mingle in school but worked well together in the Scouts environment.

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Same with my son. He mixes with kids he otherwise wouldn't associate with.
I have to say it's the same thing with the parents in the troop... not all my cup of tea for sure.
That said, I have made some nice friendships & it has been beneficial on many levels.
I get help with my computer problems, I get to go kill a snake in their yard... that sort of thing.

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Scouts is a great educational program. But your experience will be determined by the quality of men involved in helping guide your troop and it's leaders.

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Wasnt a scout, dont have a kid scouting so no opinions to share.

But this post? This rings true for every single aspect of our society. We all need to strive to be the quality men involved in ______ and not the click bait outrage consumers.

If everyone took this post to heart our world would be a better place.