being charitable rather than teaching boys to be upright, hardworking, and honest undermined the whole scouting system and made rank advancements meaningless in the church. The lack of principles conveyed by these leaders hurt numerous boys with their ho-hum let's cheat to get the boys advanced attitude. Hard to learn good lessons in life when your church leaders cheat for you.

Essentially, the whole program was administered wrong. They should have been focusing on activities for the boys with scouting being the vehicle and let the boys who were interested pursue advancement as they wanted.

BG