RE: [Philmont]: Age isues

I say tell the parent the following. As much as we would like to take him,
Philmont won't allow it. However, if you want your son to have the Philmont
experience, might I suggest you enroll in a class at the Philmont Training
Center, and put your son in the youth program while you are there (he may be
eligible for Mountain Man) so he can experience much of what Philmont has to
offer? You'd get a trained parent in return if they go, and this is
basically a put up or shut up type of response.
:-)
Don Roberts
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of drtii123@aol.com
  Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:03 PM
  To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
  Subject: [Philmont]: Age isues

  We have a parent/advisor in our Troop who would like for their son to go
with our contigent to Philmont. He will not meet age requirements, close but
no cigar. He has an older brother going. We as advisors have told this
parent/advisor that he can not go this time, but hopefully again in the near
future. I have not seen this issue come up in discussion since lurking on
this list. Does anybody have any advise or stories to pass on concerning
this issue. It should be a clear cut rules and safety issue, but what can we
tell a difficult parent. Other than what we already have that the Scout
can't go.

  David Ritter
  Philmont July 2006

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Received on Thu Jan 5 14:56:07 2006