Leaders ‘Sacked’ For Not Following the Rules!

This kind of relates back to a post I made in July about Leaders refusing to accept girls in their Group.

Well, it now seems that a different Group has been refusing to accept girls (despite having to since 1st January 2007) and that their District has removed them form their roles. See this newspaper article (which does seem to be slightly biased towards the Leaders). And quite rightly so! The ruling that Groups must accept girls is now nearly two years old and if they don’t approve, well tough luck! What example is it setting to the members of the Group if their Leaders cannot follow the Scout Association’s rules?

Now from reading the article, two things strike me. First how was the District able to replace all the Leaders in one go (I’m very impressed about that!) and second why did the Leaders feel the need to go to a national newspaper to moan about an organisation they obviously enjoy being in and have spent so much time and effort doing stuff for? The sacked Leaders talk about getting the rules changed back to being boy only, but there is no chance of this happening, once this decision was taken there is no going back

The thing to bear in mind is that if you don’t follow the rules of the organisation you are associated with, be it work or a voluntary organisation, you will get sacked (unless you are an MP of course!).

It sad to see nine experienced Leaders being removed from their roles, but if they are so eager to break the Scout Association’s rules and set a bad example to their Scouts, then it is the correct decision.