Re: British Scouts: highest rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies

Marc

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Apr 6, 2011, 2:35:10 PM4/6/11

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On 06/04/2011 13:13, MakeThatBadge...@ScoutingNull.com wrote:
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> British scouts to 'be prepared' with sex education
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> – Tue Apr 5, 6:33 am ET
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> LONDON (AFP) – British scouts are giving their age-old motto "be
> prepared" a new twist with the launch Tuesday of sex education classes
> in a bid to help tackle the country's high rates of sexually
> transmitted diseases.
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The BSA might want to consider the same

http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20110321/bs_prweb/prweb8220867_3

J. Hugh Sullivan

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Apr 7, 2011, 12:36:38 PM4/7/11

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The ACLU would sue - they support sexual depravity.

Hugh

Marc

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Apr 7, 2011, 12:58:28 PM4/7/11

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Are you still polluting this world? :-(

Florian Scholz

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Apr 7, 2011, 1:44:47 PM4/7/11

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I wonder if sexual health education is the challenge of scouts because I
am a german scout and I have never heard of such activities in Germany.
Isn't health education a challenge of teachers and parents?

J. Hugh Sullivan

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Apr 7, 2011, 2:53:49 PM4/7/11

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Yes, I defecate. You obviously don't.

Hugh

J. Hugh Sullivan

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Apr 7, 2011, 2:58:18 PM4/7/11

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Certainly it should not be a primary focus of Scouts. But Scouts
should always emphasize morality. Hopefully it would augment the
eaching of the parents.

Hugh

Marc

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Apr 7, 2011, 3:04:06 PM4/7/11

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True, I read it "here"! :-(

Marc

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Apr 7, 2011, 3:04:57 PM4/7/11

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Aren't Scout Leaders teachers?

Florian Scholz

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Apr 7, 2011, 4:37:09 PM4/7/11

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I thought of school teachers but in common, scout leaders are teachers,
too. The difference is that they organize trips, games and learn young
scouts techniques like reading maps, using particular knots, encoding
and decoding of morse code and how to sing scout songs. In my opinion
you can't compare this with biological education.

Marc

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Apr 7, 2011, 5:00:47 PM4/7/11

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Scouting is education for life.

If you think it's just "reading maps, using particular knots, encoding
and decoding of morse code and how to sing scout songs" then you are
missing a great deal.

Scouts read maps as a way of learning to understand systems, codes,
communication, environment , history, geography, sociology, ...
They use knots as a way of learning teamwork, history, social skills,
manual dexterity..
The use morse as a code, coummunication, language, memory training...
They sing songs as history, communication , team building,social skills,
group interaction.

Never mistake the aim for the method.

Florian Scholz

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Apr 7, 2011, 5:05:17 PM4/7/11

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Then my old scouting group failed in educational purpose.

J. Hugh Sullivan

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Apr 8, 2011, 7:17:59 AM4/8/11

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If so, you need a bath - quick. You stink.

Hugh

MakeThatBadge...@scoutingnull.com

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Apr 13, 2011, 2:42:37 PM4/13/11

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Morality? Which "morality" and which "god" ? If anything and
everything is morality and god, it's meaningless.

The problem with the Boy Scouts of America is that by requiring ANY
higher power worship, a scout could worship a rotten head of cabbage
and be acceptable. So by even touching the subject, the BSA destroys
all meaning OF the subject.

A Satanist could claim they worship a higher power and have a
morality.

The BSA should teach scoutcraft and get out of the phony morality
business.

With their membership going down like the Titanic and Americans
avoiding the BSA like it was the KKK, they will either change or die.