Hello All,
As it stands, I presently have no guidelines, criteria or what have you for
the Ranger of the Year program. Does anybody keep any sort of scoring system
for any particular meeting? I need ideas that I can incorporate into the
ministry as it is going to be offered at my church.
This is what I am doing and it has already been approved by my pastor.
Every meeting, I have a tally sheet that is kept and filed for who did what
that evening. I am scoring on behavior, dues, uniform, Advanced Merits,
Ratings, Attendance, and unfortunately, I also have to keep a tally of the
negative aspects too such as verbal warnings (2) I'll give the boys 2 verbal
warnings before they get a demerit strike. All of these are points of which
I call maturity points. A demerit strike is a point that that has been taken
away for misbehavior. The boys don't loose points on anything but
misbehavior. They are given opportunity to gain back those points through
x-tra credit opportunities as they come up or through completion of
advancements, I'm always Leary of having to doc points, but I believe that it
is an appropriate course of action modeled after many of the local school
systems grading systems. I believe that if I can operate on a level that the
children are already familiar with that is will ease the operation of the
outpost and be less likely to confuse the kids and things like advancements
will happen. My Pastor was pretty happy that this system provided for not
only a nightly accountability, but an accountability that is documented
throughout the year.
Essentially, each boy can earn about 130 points a night with perfect
attendance and behavior, and advancements and the whole bit, as an ideal
situation. Though it would be desired, no boy is going to be able to meet
that standard with any consistency. Most of what they do depends on them.
Each boy is going to need to keep a point balance to be able to participate
on trips and activities of which they will be given every opportunity
generate those points. New kids wanting to go to pow-wow should at least
have recruit rating and or a waiver signed by 2 commanders, pastor and parent
(s) after each month, quarter, and year the boys with the most points is our
candidate for Ranger of the Year.
I had to set up and organize this as our basic operating policies because
we presently have no organization. We are small, but we believe that with
these guidelines that we will be able to operate a smooth outpost as each
child will be taught what is expected of them, just as most schools use a
student handbook and are issued one of those when school opens. It is not a
tough program, it is advancement forward and I have boys who do want to do it
and do it right.
Commentary?
Iron Mike
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