Posted by:
Cornelius
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Date: November 15, 2013 12:43PM
I'm a scout leader in my ward and one of the boys in my troop is getting his tenderfoot. At our weekly activity I was telling him he needed to have a board of review. So I had one of the other boys who recently had a rank advancement to tell him about it.
Boy #2 explains "They make you say the scout law and oath, and then Brother XXX will ask you what the most important point of the scout law is. The answer is "Obedience" if you don't say obedience then he will correct you and let you know that the most important thing a scout can be is obedient."
I tried to reason with the boys and talk about how all the attributes are important, with zero success. They were so set on having the "right" answer, they refused to see that being trustworthy or helpful or kind are just as/more important than blind obedience.
I really hate TSCC.