So much depends on the troop leader. When I joined Cub Scouts, our leaders were lazy dads; our “meetings” were just an excuse to play Atari and horse around, and they’d give us ‘merit badges’ every once in awhile to seem like we were being productive. Then I got my Arrow of Light and became a Boy Scout, and our new troop leader was the opposite. Our meetings were at a local church, and all we did was recite Bible verses and repeat them. You had to stand and repeat verses by memory, and if you got it wrong, he’d beat you. That lasted only a few months before he got fired and I quit Scouting pronto.
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