AIBU to say that we are not here to provide tour child's education.

[Curerofsouls]

This was prompted by the homeschooling thread and just reminded me of an email I received from a potential new attendee in our scout group. The parents have been homeschooling their children and appear quite target driven with things they would like the child to learn or cover. The parent sent me their child's learning objectives and asked how we could meet them!
I replied politely and stated that I was unable to go theough his learning objectives but would be happy to send our itinerary for the term so the parents could see. Not a happy camper the parent proceeded to tell me how I should be linking with homeschooling learning objectives. I told them I was not being paid to be a teacher so wouldn't be doing that but child was still welcome to attend. Needless to say he never showed anyway. I was discussing it with a colleague today and she thought I was mean🤣
What do you reckon...mean or not?

I think scout/Brownie/group leaders need to write a book on the weird and wonderful and quite honestly bonkers things they have been asked to do
I bet it would be a best seller
The 'This is going to hurt' of the volunteering world

@sueelleker

Talk about wanting to have your cake and eat it too. And they wanted you to make the cake!

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[quote Curerofsouls]@Howshouldibehave she is a fellow Scout leader though not the same group.[/quote]
Oh please please tell her that you were thinking about what she said and so you gave the parents her contact details so their child could join her group and she could do the stuff for them.

Just to see her face. 😁

No, not mean at all.

My DC has learning needs and particularly primary school was a challenge for them. Cubs & Scouts was a freedom for them or rather sadly should have been. Our local leaders (all volunteers) were fabulous with them and any other children with SEN. But their father created such a fuss that it made their attendance very tricky. The Leaders were just brilliant. The scouting movement is so welcoming and broad - I just cant thank all of you enough.

answer- independence (from overbearing parent) socialization (ditto) emotional & social development (see previous answer) & sod off cretin

@RedHelenB

My dd volunteered at Brownies. The home schooled ones were hard work, they weren't used to waiting for others and not getting their own way.

Really, I found the opposite.

@IfImLyingImDying

Ha!!

DH runs a very similar group and has exactly this problem but also the parent demanding the price they’re willing to pay for the sessions. Then there was the not turning up now and again without any notice and not wanting to commit to a set number of sessions. I’m sorry to say that the organisation he runs groups for won’t advertise to the home ed community anymore because of this, which is a real shame.

Prejudice is a shame isn't it. Home ed families vary as much as any other sub set of families but hey just write them all off, why not.

The parents are clearly bonkers and very self entitled.

You were a LOT more welcoming than I would have been. Any parent that starts the conversation like that is going to be very hard work.

However, I suspect she must be a MNer as "someone" has voted YABU

Not mean in the slightest. What planet is this parent on that she thinks the volunteers who run the local scouts group should be pressured into tying fun activities her kids learning objectives. Jeeeeeez eye-roll

There are some really bonkers parents out there. I remember the girl dd invited to tea and her dm sent me a note to ask if I had been dbs checked In fact I had, and I invited her round in advance to inspect our house - which she did! (It transpired she did this with others, too.)

When dd did Rainbows/Brownies/Guides the rudeness of the other parents never ceased to amaze me. But the opposite from OP - trying to weasel out of any involvement or helping out rather than wanting “learning objectives”.

My three were Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Beavers, Cubs, Explorers. Always good when they did things that were completely off my radar, like the six course black tie dinner they did for parents whilst camping at a local campsite using camp fires only, which included home-made bread, roasted meats, fish and a dessert. The only thing they failed to do was boil enough water for coffee for everyone. Such a let down - they obviously failed with their objectives there!