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Published on: 3/10/2006
Last Visited: 3/10/2006
Cub Scout membership dropped from 477 to 300 between 1998 and 2005, according to Andrew Olsen, senior district executive for the local Glacier's Edge Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Olsen attributed the loss primarily to a Janesville School Board policy established in 1997 that prohibits Scouting talks in the district's elementary schools.
That's why he has sent letters to every school board member asking them to revisit the policy.
"We would like to have an opportunity to present a 15-minute presentation about Scouting to the boys in grades first through fifth one time a year in the fall, during a time to be scheduled with each individual school," Olson wrote in a Feb. 21 letter."This would enable us to help make Scouting a possibility for the youth in this community."
Olsen also telephoned board members.
"I didn't get any sense of negative from any of them," he said.
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Both Evert and Olsen agreed that the meeting went well.
Olsen said Evert agreed to put together a committee "to see how we, as a team, can better promote outside organizations in cooperation with the education system."