You are confirming the statement. They are both badly neglected.

To them, SA = sexual assault.

It is not rage bait. It's good-faith commentary on how a movement has become lost.

It's hard to learn of problems with something we deeply invested in. I've been there. It took me years to work through this struggle and come to these positions.

But I find there's an excellent case that BSA can do much better. And it must, or it's going to collapse within 10 years.

The good thing is "do better" is right in front of us. It means catching up with international peers, adopting lessons learned from and norms in our own society, and eliminating irrational deviations from longstanding notions of what Scouting is.

Many times, the high schooler wants to do different things than the 6th grader. And even when they do the same activity, approaches will be different.

Today's reality is that 90% of BSA's high schoolers are stuck in its middle-school program. They aren't getting age-level programming.

BSA has never strongly denied this. Instead, it acts as if handing the reins of its middle-school program to high schoolers constitutes age-level programming for high schoolers. It does not.

It even further muddies the water, recommending mixed-age patrols. Yes, for real, your freshly crossed-over 10 year old is supposed to be in the same patrol as a 17 yo high-school senior. That is weird. But BSA thinks it's appropriate.

To be clear, I think cross-age-band interactions can have value, but they must be optional, and they must never displace age-level programming. I have separately proposed a new position called Guide. It is a position of responsibility where any youth may elect to help with any younger program. This is a service role, not supervision, not displacing younger youth from owning their program. This replaces Den Chief, Instructor, Junior Asst. Scoutmaster, and Troop Guide.

But importantly, and to reemphasize, Guide must be OPTIONAL. Scouting in no way depends on cross-age-band interactions. They are a value add when they work well. But the BSA view on these interactions resembles a fetish and lacks a rational basis.

The spring membership numbers reveal this. Mid-spring is when the lapsed members from the prior year finally get dropped. Spring 2020 was before the pandemic had any real effect on membership (main recruiting is in the fall), so that is when LDS's withdrawal became apparent.

Then spring 2021 is when we see drops and poor recruiting during the pandemic.

Since then, membership has been largely flat, possibly declining modestly (hard to read precisely).

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Therefore, that these sentences don’t describe the situation great could be due to poorly vetted copy-paste of AI text.

Fellow Scouter here. Lots of Scout units in the USA have cell phone bans. That’s such an obsolete policy. We need to help the Scouts model good choices, and that doesn’t happen when decision opportunities are removed.

Also, if they are buried in their phones, take that as feedback on how much fun they are[n’t] having in your Scout unit.

“Timmy got away with it. I should get away with it, too.” -Elementary school students

This isn’t about what platform an enterprise hosts its cloud offerings on. That barely affects the customer experience, outside of lock-in situations.

The concern was on OS support for customer-run software.

Lake Texoma has been hovering by the “full” mark pretty consistently for over 55 years. Recently, its water level has significantly declined to—wait for it—100% full!

If you monitor water maps, the east half of Texas’s water supplies don’t often get far outside of “full”.

More data: https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/texo...

I just upgraded to 139.0.7258.67, and uBlock Origin 1.65.0 is working as always.

With 138, I reconfigured Chrome to force Manifest v2 to continue working. But even Google's guidance (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline) suggests that for 138, Manifest V2 is "disabled" and "Users can no longer turn them back on." For 139, for enterprise users, "the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be removed", further clarified with "Manifest V2 extensions will cease to function for any user upgrading to Chrome 139".

Did something change?

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