Merit Badge Requirements

Merit Badge Requirements

We appreciate the efforts which a number of our scout officials are making in passing through the First Class test, as well as the merit-badge work. We realize that these efforts are a big help to the scout master in developing this work among his boys. We would suggest, however, that these merit-badge requirements are provided principally for the boys. Where scout officials receive merit badges they should not be worn conspicuously, or to any great extent, be- cause in many instances it will have a tendency to discourage the younger boys from working for these badges, feeling that such things are too advanced for them. A merit-badge certificate would perhaps be recognition sufficient for the scout official. The National Organ- ization, in permitting others than the boy scouts to take out these badges does so primarily for the purpose of giving some inducement for the scout officials to prepare themselves to help the boys to become efficient in scout activities.

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