With the many curricular activities that public schools are now engaged in, it seems that scouting in some schools now seems to be the least among the top choices.

In fact, in the past few years, there have been fewer pupils who register as Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts of the Philippines (BSP’s of GSP’s).

Decades back, BSP and GSP had been one of the most popular institutions that pupils would engaged in, but nowadays, sports, dance and glee clubs have taken the front seats.

It should be realized that a boy or a girl pupil can learn so much in Scouting. In Scouts camping and Jamborees can the children learn how to cook, to tie knots, to make fire and to make temporary shelters and toilets (kaibo).

Scouts are taught how to cook rice in bamboo or how to boil egg in sticks.

Scouts are taught the disciplines of a Model Scout with values like honesty, integrity and respect among others.

Scouts learn how to sing and dance together with their comrades in campsite. They can learn to be independent – to live, to sleep and spend days without their parents to run to, without a nanny to look after their needs and without the gifts of technology that mostly take so much of their time.

Let us hope that Scouting can once again become popular among pupils and students so they can experience all the good values, activities and teachings of the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts of the Philippines.

It’s really fun to be a scout. If you want to know experience it and see for yourself.

 

By: Joyce Anne Reyes | Tomas Pinpin Memorial Elementary School | Abucay, Bataan