Are they all after Asbos?

So the scouts do a survey and lo and behold it finds a majority of children and youth are respectful of teachers and the local populace. Infact it seems that most young people are nice and mature youngsters!

Community Spirit:
70% feel adults are overtly critical of them
Community spirit does not seem to be too high
Members of youth clubs are twice as likely to be community minded


School and Education:
90% feel pressure from parents to achieve in school
81% respect their teachers
87% are eager to achieve good grades
81% want to go to University


Family Unit:
95% feel their parents want the best for them
25% feel their parents don’t really listen to them

The report involved quantitative and qualitative research of 1,004 13 – 18 year olds.

now i know 1004 is a fairly low number, but it shows what i have always said, the minority is always spoiling it for the majority.

Now if only we could encourage the govertment to notice this and maybe they could work at getting a comunity spirt back, may be first we had better rebuild the comunity first though?

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ok i am not that pc, and many thanks to pippin for posting this on a Forum i frequent (and mod!)

New blog, and why?!

why did i decide to start blogging on the second day of the new year? simply because this is 2007, the 100th birthday of scouting, and the year of the world scout jamboree. This is a scout leaders blog, where i will post what i am doing at my troop ( not mentioning the name for child protection issue reasons, cant be too safe can we :D)

so heres to 2007 and lots of fun!