{"id":990,"date":"2010-08-25T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2010-08-25T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T18:46:09","slug":"the-parent-questionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"The Parent Questionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In the last article<\/strong> I printed a copy of the letter I sent to parents in 1986 when I was a scoutmaster having problems with the troop and ready to resign from the position. Part of that letter was a questionnaire that I asked the parents to fill out and send back to me. I really did not expect many questionnaires to be returned, but I received a pleasant surprise. (Keep in mind, this was long before everyone had access to the internet and email. We sent letters to each other by the US Postal Service!)<\/p>\n

Here is a copy of that questionnaire:<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

TROOP 68 PARENT QUESTIONNAIRE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NAME: ____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you know the Scout Oath and Law? If not, would you be willing to learn them?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you think that the principles set forth in the Oath and Law are good goals to strive for?<\/em><\/p>\n

Would you be willing to work with your son(s) on developing a proper and positive attitude about Scouting?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you know the requirements of the award(s) which your son(s) are currently working on?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you know what a merit badge counselor is? What is it? What subjects do you feel you could be a councilor for?<\/em><\/p>\n

What kind of discipline actions should a scoutmaster be allowed to take?<\/em><\/p>\n

What is your opinion of Scouts wearing the Scout uniform?<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you willing to make sure that your son participates in Scout activities?<\/em><\/p>\n

Would you be willing to spend two hours, or more, a month toward helping out and developing a better troop?<\/em><\/p>\n

How important do you think it is for parents to attend a court of honor?<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you think your son feels about Scouting in general? How do you feel about Scouting in general? What do you think about Scouting in Melrose?<\/em><\/p>\n

How many hours a week do you think a scoutmaster should spend working on Scouting?<\/em><\/p>\n

Please write any additional comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n

You may not believe this, but I still have the questionnaires that were returned to me. I have them in a file in my Scouting cabinet. Nineteen people replied, which represented most of the troop when you count how many families had brothers involved. It gave me a pretty good idea about how the parents felt on the topics. For example, only 5 parents checked knowing the Scout Oath and Law, but nearly everyone replied that they would be willing to learn them.<\/p>\n

How would your troop’s current parents answer these questions?<\/p>\n

(And this irritates me. I cannot get the picture of the hats to rotate properly.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last article I printed a copy of the letter I sent to parents in 1986 when I was a scoutmaster having problems with the troop and ready to resign from the position. Part of that letter was a questionnaire that I asked the parents to fill out and send back to me. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,38],"tags":[135,133],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-program","tag-parents","tag-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}