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To: max americana

They’ve lowered the starting age for Scouts. My boys all started at 6 years old as “Tiger Scouts” which changes to the “Bobcat” rank about midway through the year.


27 posted on 10/05/2012 7:53:18 AM PDT by reegs
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To: reegs

No more cub scouts?


41 posted on 10/05/2012 8:06:41 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
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To: reegs
They’ve lowered the starting age for Scouts. My boys all started at 6 years old as “Tiger Scouts” which changes to the “Bobcat” rank about midway through the year.

Those would be I believe, a part of the Cub Scouts...Between the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, you have the Webelos...

Boy Scouts start at age eleven...

44 posted on 10/05/2012 8:09:07 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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To: reegs; max americana; norcal joe

Here is the current sequence for the various Scouting organizations: 1st grade (age 6) - Tiger Cub to Bobcat; 2d grade (age 7) - Cub Scout, Wolf rank; 3d grade (age 8) - Cub Scout, Bear rank; 4th grade (age 9) - Webelos, 1st year; 5th grade (age 10) - Webelos, 2d year, transition to Boy Scouts at age 10-1/2, usually in the spring of the 4th grade; Boy Scouts, up to age 18, ranks Tenderfoot to Eagle; Venture Scouting (coed), outdoor adventure program, ages 14-21; Explorers (coed), career exploration (aka Learning for Life) for ages 14-21.

As to this person’s “Eagle project”, I agree with those who think it is woefully short of the project requirements I knew when I was a Scoutmaster and Troop Committee Chair. It never should have been approved by the troop or the District Advancement committee. The primary reason it does not appear to meet the requirements is the lack of a leadership element. He did this pretty much on his own.


49 posted on 10/05/2012 8:14:40 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: reegs
It was easy to look up the age requirements on the BSA web page:

Meet the age requirements. Be a boy who is 11 years old, or one who has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award and is at least 10 years old, but is not yet 18 years old.

53 posted on 10/05/2012 8:17:17 AM PDT by norcal joe
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