Scout Jamboree

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DS 13 has recently started scouts and loves it. Has come hogwarts with info re international Jamboree in uS 2019 and he wants to go. There's an assessment weekend later this year. I appreciate it's a competitive process but does anyone know what sort of things they assess on.

Late to this but just heard this eve that my DS did not get a jamboree place. I'm an assistant leader. I'm gutted for him while being soooooo relieved I won't have it taking over our lives and disrupting family camp trips, hockey squad etc and not having to worry about the fundraising... But still feel just like the poster up thread wanting to rant as he's a good scout who has been to each and every camp and trip since joining Beavers, got Scout of the Year award last year in his troop, is a patrol leader and very committed to Scouting but he is a little shy. Don't know who else from his group got in (or didn't) but really hoping it wasn't the nice but seriously gobby kid who misbehaves each session and I'm constantly having to pull up for being idiotic or the kid who's mum told me he was going to leave scouts until he heard about the jamboree opportunity and who has never been on any camp or residential (in his words "why would I want to go away with Scouts when I can be home, I don't like camping", cost of camp etc not an issue) and who I have to nag to get off snap chat at most sessions. Sigh, disappointed for DS but delighted about bit having the fundraising headache for the next 18 months.

Ok here’s a question, this might be more of an aibu! So my son didn’t get picked and neither did the other 7 boys who went with him from our town. In some ways this was best case scenario for us parents - no fundraising and no unfavourable comparisons between friends. However, last night on fb a picture popped up of our region’s chosen scouts having their first get together. My son was keen to know who had been picked from the people he had met at selection camp, so we zoomed in on the photo and our unanimous impression was: girls! Out of 20 scouts pictured 10 were girls. Girls are not equally represented in our region. And even though guides were there too, Selection camp consisted of about 20 girls out of 80 odd children. So the question is are they having to pick equal numbers? and therefore are boys being unfairly discriminated against? This is just a musing I wouldn’t mention in real life, just wondering really....