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Do you educate your scouts about Robert Baden Powell in full?
I grew up near Poole and was a scout, this was the first I knew.
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https://www.scout.org/node/52292/introduction would suggest the organisation as a whole doesn't
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I mention Baden Powell less than once a year , normally only pointing out he was actually left handed but Victorians made children write right handed.
I tend to miss out the Nazi bits, the desperately social climbing mother, his early views on masturbation, the looting and his repressed Homosexuality.
jellybaby
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If you compare pre WW1 to Post WW1 versions of Scouting for Boys you will see a change in focus from preparing boys to administer an Empire to International friendship. International Jamborees and Kanderstag for example.
I'm a Scout Leader BTW happy to talk about the reality of the Association today which, in my experience is not racist or homophobic.