 Because we believe that we have something unique to offer, and that our sons deserve the best. The Boy Scouts of America has been in existence since 1910, and is the largest youth organization in the world. Over the years, the program has changed and improved in a variety of ways in response to the needs of its members. Many of the changes have been positive, but there were also many good things from Scouting’s history that have had to give way to the demands of our modern, fast paced culture.
The Scouts, leaders and parents of Troop 238 believe that we can take the best that modern, mainstream Scouting has to offer, and combine it with the best from Scouting’s past, and deliver on the promise to provide a program that is exciting, fun and interesting to the Scouts, and at the same time develops the leadership, citizenship skills and character traits that are at the heart of Scouting’s philosophy - past and present. This is what we mean by “Traditional Scouting.” http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/index.htm
 The Scout’s in Troop 238 are part of all that mainstream Scouting has to offer, including the advancement opportunities, merit badge program, council and district functions and facilities, High Adventure programs, summer camp, etc., http://www.scouting.org/ but our program is delivered within a more traditional framework, patterned after Scouting as it was envisioned by its founders, Robert Baden Powell, Daniel Carter Beard, and Earnest Thompson Seton, etc. http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-211.html
The Troop will be “boy led” as much as possible. The need for expensive and cumbersome equipment and fancy camping gadgets will be de-emphasized, and instead, Scouts will learn to make many needed items, and learn to “make do” with less. We have revived several Scouting traditions deemed essential in earlier days, including the “Smokey Bear” hat, the full sized square neckerchief h t t p : / / p i n et r e eweb . co m /n ec k e r c h i e f .h t m, t he turk ’s he ad wo ggl e http://www.cranleighscoutgroup.org.uk/turks_head_woggle.htm, the “Scout Staff” http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/skills/staff_use.htm, and we have reintroduced many basic scouting woodcraft skills including mapping and compass skills, signaling, tracking and stalking, primitive fire-making, knots and rope skills, wide games, etc. Most importantly, the Scouts in Troop 238 will develop and use their skills not by being “taught” and having to “study” (like they will be doing every day in school) but within the context of “Playing the Game of Scouting” during which all of the essential skills are developed naturally while doing the things that boys of Scouting age love to do naturally - like playing in the outdoors, building shelters, chopping wood, making fires, getting dirty, etc.
There are several other very well run Boy Scout Troops in our area, each a bit different than the other. If you are interested in what Troop 238 has to offer, then we welcome you to our ranks!
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