Joshua,
Excellent comments on the current trail to the Gold Medal. I was amazed at
the complexity and ambiguity of the current advancement trail as my son
completed it. We didn't really understand all of the requirements until we
started filling out his application form for the GMA. At least when I
earned my GMA, I knew exactly what it was going to take to earn it. All I
had to do was all the advancements in Trailblazers and Trail Rangers! Not
an easy task, but it was a clear path to the GMA.
I think with the amount of effort that is going into the new program, we
will end up with a program that everyone should be able to back and
support. Thus, there should be little need for major changes in just a few
years.
Congratulations on your GMA -- keep up the good work as you continue in
both Royal Rangers and Boy Scouts.
Jonathan Trower
At 06:33 PM 4/5/2000 -0400, Joshua Wheeler wrote:
>Mr. Trower,
>
>This new program strikes interesting to me, as a new GMA Royal Ranger I have
>some opinions on the program and how it could change.
>When I saw the "Gold Track" program it looked like nothing I had ever seen.
>According to the program, I would have to do the Rank advancements, (which
>wasn't the problem) and what looked like another additional set of
>Advancements. In trailblazers I worked hard and steady to advance to the
>explorer rank ,but I found that at the end of the trailblazer program was
>the "Gold Hawk" nothing more, also that I made little advancement toward the
>GMA but that my path was just starting. I had a lot to do and that the
>trailblazer gold track program wasn't helping me much. Some of that go back
>to pioneer gold track and finish that confused and fusterated me.
>
>I choose to go the original path, earning the merits from the start and I
>wish that through the entire program (like in trailblazers) the reqirements
>second class through advanced rating maby be like: tie the **** knot and
>bring 5 friends to church... campcrafty stuff then master through explorer
>would be: earn three merits of your choice and earn seven GMA req. merits
>making ten. and also even having a sixth advancement being the GMA itself so
>that it would look like Master, Explorer, GMA !BOOM! you've got it.
>
>I'm not sure what really the new program is going to entail but two things
>should be included that what would make it it easier for boy's that have or
>are just coming in is: make it pliable for everyone don't put "Complete
>pioneer gold trak req." that confuzed me "I thought I was done with
>pioneers.." and another thing that should happen is: when you enpliment a
>program stand behind it and DON'T BACK DOWN. Please don't change the program
>every four years again and again One program and that is all.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joshua Wheeler
>OP. 354 TPCC
>Royal Ranger GMA
>
>------Original Message------
>From: Jonathan Trower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: April 5, 2000 6:16:32 PM GMT
>Subject: Re: [RR] New program
>A Furthermore, the entire national office staff is STILL
>actively involved on the local level -- they have all gotten involved in
>Royal Rangers in various churches around the Springfield area since they
>moved there. Our national leadership has a tremendous number of years of
>involvement in the local outpost.
>
>Furthermore, these changes have been reviewed by the national RR executive
>committee numerous times, and have been presented and discussed at numerous
>regional training seminars, etc. for the past several months. Thus, most
>commanders have at least had the opportunity to go and hear about the
>changes first hand, and to have the opportunity to discuss those changes
>with the representatives from the national office. If you had the
>opportunity, and failed to go, you missed your chance. But if
>representatives from the national office came to your part of the country
>and you failed to go to the meetings, I don't know what else commanders
>expect them to do to show you what is coming, and to give you a chance to
>respond . . .
>
>Most recently, several hundred commanders (district and regional staff
>members) from across the nation met in Springfield for National Council,
>and these plans were actively discussed for several days. I know personally
>that the plans and ideas were further modified as a result of those
>meetings and discussions. For example, the concept for the new training
>program was the subject of intense meetings during that week, and the
>concept was refined and focused as a result of those discussions. The
>actual development of the training modules is now beginning. The same is
>true of the other aspects of the program.
>
>Thus, the changes that are coming were not done in a vacuum, nor in an
>"ivory tower." They were proposed by a national staff with years of active
>local outpost leadership experience, with the advice and counsel of
>hundreds of commanders from across the nation. If you still have concerns,
>put them in writing to the national office ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or discuss
>them with your district commander who can pass them on. Complaining on
>RangerNet won't accomplish much.
>
>Jonathan
>
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>South Central Region Training Coordinator
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>phone: 254-420-1941
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