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"BDPT00 Wrote:  \n\n\"Let's not forget our friends in NYLT and NAYLE\". \n  \n\nGood looking out BDPT00! \n  \n\nWhen I was originally asked to serve as NYLT Course Director I decided there was NO WAY was I going to puruse or accept the 4th bead recognition. I was a Wood Badge purist, and if I was ever going to receive a 4th bead, by golly it was going to be through Wood Badge! Then I met a few great Scouters at the CDC who had earned their 4th bead through NYLT. Furthermore, I thought about all of the other people I had run across who should have exemplified the principles of Wood Badge like \"Leading Change\", yet remained very steadfast and rigid in their old ideas. I decided that it was not only my right, but my obligation to usher in the new paradigm, and actually role model the principles of Wood Badge. So; albeit a tad controversial, I proudly wear my 4th bead that was awarded shortly before our course began last year. We will have another Scouter in the Council earn their's the same way this year, and in 10 years or so, NYLT or NAYLE bead recognitions will be commonplace. Some of us in the beginning have taken some rather ignorant criticism from some Wood Badge elitists, but the 3rd or 4th bead we wear is as valid as the 3rd or 4th bead worn by any Wood Badge Staffer or Course Director. It comes by the same authority theirs did in Irving, Texas. If these folks are true Wood Badge purists, then I propose they go back to wearing 2 beads like they do in the UK. I feel NYLT was a lot more challenging than any Wood Badge staff I have worked on. Nontheless, I have enjoyed Wood Badge tremedously and still hope to be able to serve again in the future.   \n  \n"
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