Scout Led Troop
Welcome! Whether you have just crossed over with your son from Cub Scouts or just joined Scouts BSA, we appreciate your enthusiasm and encourage your participation in the troop. The three aims of Scouts BSA are character development, citizenship training, and mental and physical fitness. To accomplish these aims, Scouting employs eight methods: the ideals, the patrol method, the outdoors, advancement, association with adults, personal growth, leadership development, and the uniform. We encourage you to take the BSA training offered on-line and by the District to find out what we are trying to accomplish and how you can help. One of the major differences between Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA is leadership development. In order to teach leadership, you have to let the scouts lead. In fact, one of the more vigorous debates you can have in Scouting is over the feasibility of a scout-led troop. Some adult leaders will argue that while a scout-led troop is the BSA ideal, itʼs not possible in their particular troop for any or all of the following reasons: the scouts are too young, too lazy, too irresponsible, or just not interested.
A scout-led troop is more work for the adult leadership, and therein is the problem, and our need for your cooperation and help. It is so much easier for the adults to just take charge themselves than to teach the necessary leadership skills to the scouts.