[Scoutmaster]

A twelve-year old First Class Scout doesn't bother me much -- particularly if the Scout attended a good summer camp. Scouts who do not earn First Class within the first year are MUCH more likely to drop out of Scouting. Don't remember if it was in writing, but I have been encouraged to get Scouts to FC within eighteen months.

I am highly distressed, instead, with at least 99 of every 100 fourteen-year old Eagle Scouts I've ever met.

[HungarianGypsy]

Scouts who do not earn First Class within the first year are MUCH more likely to drop out of Scouting.

I guess that means my son has only two more months to make first class. He has been wanting to go with another troop that his friends are in, because he is getting sick of being bullied and picked on in his current troop and being told "that's just the way they are" about these particular boys. Only problem is the troop he wants to be in is a bit of a way to go.