Archive of Scouts-L List for November 1994: Re: Citizenship
badges for foreign cub scouts  Re: Citizenship badges for
foreign cub scouts  Jim Carter - HCI Project
(hci@SKDAD.USASK.CA) Wed, 2 Nov 1994 15:22:54 -0600  >I also
have a couple of questions for our international scouters. Do
you have >something similiar to citizenship badges/activity pins
in your scouting organi- >zations? If so, how would you help a
foreign citizen in your troops/packs to >satisfy the
requirements?  In Canada, both in Scouting and Guiding, badge
requirenemts are more looked at as general guidelines towards
demonstrating proficiency in a certain area rather than
legalistic, contractual requirements.  Lord Baden-Powell wrote
the following in Aids to Scoutmasters, "Our standard for badge
earning is not the attainment of a certain level of quality of
knowledge or skill, but the AMOUNT OF EFFORT THE BOY HAS PUT
INTO ACQUIRING SUCH KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL. This brings the most
hopeless case on a footing of equal possibility with his more
bril