A bad taste to the mouth story.
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
Philippines
February 18, 2020 10:46pm CST
I was a girl scout, camping being one of the memories I can easily click to mind. I can recite the scout motto up to now by heart. My daughters were girl scouts, too.
Scouting is training grounds. Discipline is instilled in the scouters in a kinda natural way.
Then this ugly news comes out now? Sigh.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
19 Feb 20
Every good always has some bad associated with it.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
19 Feb 20
That is a generalization. Perhaps what seems good was really evil in guise of good.
As to this story, that does not apply. There are many scouts who are truly good.
@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
19 Feb 20
I was a boy scout. I was pressured by older boys to do some very ugly things while camping. the pressure was very heavy. I refused and quit the scouts when I got back home. I can imagine that weaker willed kids would fall victim to that pressure. I cannot picture a leader being the abuser. It is sad, and I truly enjoyed what I learned before that. I suppose had I said something at the time those boys might have been removed. Truth is I did not trust that I would be believed. After all, those boys had been part of the troop for years, while I was relatively new.
