Dan Hanks wrote:
Dan Hanks made the following basic points (summarized):
1) parents can update what their kids have done
This is not applicable to Boy Scouts, btw. Only Scoutmasters do this --
with 1 or 2 merit badge exceptions.
Good point. However, it _is_ applicable for Duty to God and Cub Scout
tracking, in which parents can take a large role in the tracking. My
personal "itch to scratch" was a centralized system for DTG tracking.
Yes, parents take a larger role with Duty to God. I agree. However,
parents still do a lot with scouting as well. I think it would be very
beneficial for parents to be able to submit, for the scoutmaster's
approval, merit badge requirement "check offs". In other words, the
parent would be able to mark the requirements they believe their Son has
done. The Scoutmaster would then review these with the Son/Parent and
then update the requirements as being approved by the Scoutmaster or
other Scout Leader. This seems it would be very useful for the
scoutmaster especially if they could generate a report of the
requirements they need to review and pass off with the scout. I believe
this is what is being implied by the #2 point.
As for Duty to God the on-line model that etrailtoeagle.com uses works
very well, IMO. Parents and Leaders can update the requirements as
they are done. Reports are automatically emailed to the Bishop, YM
Presidency, Parents, etc. As YM President I started using
etrailtoeagle.com to track our YM's progress on their D2G. Parents
love it, the Bishop loves it, and it makes our job as the YM Presidency
a lot easier. Some parents will update requirements directly
on-line. Others, that are not so web savvy, simply just print out the
report that gets sent to them via email, update their Son's progress and
hand this to me on Sunday.
-stacey.
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