>Royal Rangers needs something to support kids who don't have
>commanders for parents, which is all I meant by my earlier message. The
>program is unfair and biased to kids with parents for commanders. How many
>GMA receivers are commander's kids? I bet it's at least 95%.
When I received my GMA in 1978, I was not a commander's kid. My parents,
while supportive, did not push me. When I needed a resource for an
advancement, they did not provide it to me.
My commanders made the difference! They were the ones that motivated me,
pushed me, and helped me. If it were not for my commanders, I would not
have earned the GMA.
My son will receive his GMA next Sunday evening, so he is a commander's son
who is receiving his GMA. Did I make the difference? Maybe, if you call
being an example for him making the difference. The only advantage he had
over other boys is that he could borrow references from my library or ask
me questions. I didn't really push him -- he pushed himself to try to beat
me, and he did. He earned more merits than I did, earned his GMA sooner
than I did, got into FCF earlier than I did, etc. Now my younger son is
trying to beat his older brother! That's what will motivate my youngest son.
In our section this decade, we have had six GMAs that I can think of. The
first three were commanders' sons. The last three were not commanders'
sons. So our data for the 1990s to date is 50-50 commanders' sons to
non-commanders' sons.
Jonathan
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