Youth Rank Advancement Warning Dates

cnimer

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This may be available, but I am not sure where to find it. I would like to see a form which could be shared with my advancement chair that cross-referenced each boy's birthdate with their current rank. This would then allow us to enter certain parameters such as, "list all boys who are 16 and hold a life rank."

This information would allow an advancement committee to contact the scoutmaster and make plans to ensure the boy is on track to be able to attain the eagle rank before he ages out with a certain amount of leeway. If this exists, someone please let me know how to create such a report, otherwise, it would be a nice addition to scoutnet which would help with advancement.

Idea # 449Boy Scouting, rank advancement

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2/10/09
From: Gary Butler, Council Solutions Group Director

Probably more beneficial if tied into On-Line Advancement. I will pass on to Youth Development and Information Systems for consideration next time an enhancement is done.

2/10/09
From: Tom Ritchey, ISD
We omit the youth member date of birth on the Internet Advancement Web site for privacy reasons. We do display age on the Unit Roster that is in the online application, however.

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pcowan 9 months ago

If a boy cannot keep track of his remaining time, then what has he learned in the program? We teach boys to grow up by allowing them to fail. If we stop now, how will this help him later on?

cnimer 9 months ago

What is the role of the advancement committee if it not to encourage advancement? I am not saying we hold their hand or force them to achieve their ranks. I am simply asking for a way for the advancement committee to be able to see where their focus should be.

Are you suggesting a boy learns more and grows more by failing due to losing track of time than he would have if he had had someone sit him down and help him set goals and make a plan to achieve them? I would rather a boy have that leadership opportunity and help him keep on track to achieve something he can be proud of his entire life than to say, "sorry you missed it by two months, hope you learned your lesson."

Charles Howard-Gibbon 9 months ago

The simple way to make this work would be to add a simple feature to the Internet Advancement report process, by which an additional page would be generated at the end of the report with headers like "no rank advancement in the last six months" and also a section like "Life Scouts age 15 and older".

I strongly discourage revision of the old-fashioned paper advancement forms -- they already have too much information on them as is.

cnimer 9 months ago

That is exactly the type of direction I would like them to take if it is at all possible.

Joe Connole 8 months ago

Earning the rank of Eagle is up to the boy. While the advancement committee should encourage advancement it should be done on a troop level. Someone on the advancement committee ought to know the scouts individually enough to know the ones who need and don't need the extra encouragement. I'm not saying that this is a horrible idea, but troops should already be able to tell you who is and who isn't progressing in rank. If they don't know this, then it is an internal problem that isn't present in the vast majority of troops.

Judy Sizemore 5 months ago

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