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- From: cronin@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Fester the Penguin)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: What is an Eagle Scout?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.152334.21178@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 15:23:34 GMT
- References: <GERMAIN.92Sep10103859@munich.cs.utah.edu> <1992Sep14.021055.2010@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Sep14.021055.2010@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
- >I have worked with several Eagle Scouts and candidates, and I feel BSA
- >should put a minimum age/grade on it. The older boys seem to get a lot
- >more out of it and appreciate the finer points a lot more (like when
- >things don't go according to plan, or identifying contingencies and
- >planning for them). Younger boys are just going through the motions.
-
- Definitely. The younger the Eagle Scout, the more clueless they are
- about the Scouting program, and about the Scouting skills they're
- supposed to have learned. Also, they don't know very much about leadership
- at age 13. This is from my own observations....
-
- Tom Cronin
- Eagle at 17... :-)
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