I was trying to update the schools listed in Scoutbook+ for my Scouts and found that it would not accept his school because it is not in the dropdown list. This is what I get:
I can assure the developers that the school is quite real and that we have several Scouts that attend it. See https://theforest.school/
Yours in Scouting,
Chuck Olson
Troop 463
Sandy Springs, GA
That is in the backlog @CharlesOlson - did you try without the THE?
@DonovanMcNeil Donovan:
Yes sir and also tried the “Acton Academy,” which is the parent organization for the school. No joy on either.
Hope you are doing well and have been having a good summer.
Chuck
Was there ever an answer to this? I have the same issue with our school not showing up.
Seckinger High School, Buford GA
As @DonovanMcNeil noted in his post in this thread, adding schools not already in the list is in the backlog. It’s not clear whether the developers will allow free-form entry, will have a method to submit “missing” schools, or something else entirely. Nor is it clear when or if the BSA will schedule the issue for development.
The answer I got was “it’s in the backlog.”
Frankly, I can think of no logical reason the SB+ developers spent their time trying to load the name of every public and private school in the US plus our overseas Councils into SB+.
Yeah, I tend to agree with this, @CharlesOlson, but obviously someone thought it was a useful task (or already had some sort of obviously incomplete database listing available). I suspect – but don’t know – that there was an interest expressed in being able to identify “How many students at school X in district Y are actually in scouts?” as a form of data mining for membership/marketing purposes.
I kinda hope that eventually the system either permits free-form manual entry and offers apparently-matching existing entries as an auto-complete option, or just allows manual entry with no worry about matching things.
Some like statistics or at least the idea of them is all I can say on that
@DonovanMcNeil, I love statistics and I can understand that knowing where Scouts go to school might be a useful tool for Scouting’s marketing types. However, in terms of the cost of creating and maintaining an accurate national database of every public and private primary and secondary school, it seems like a waste of time and resources. My Council’s professional staff struggles to keep up with the number of new public schools that are opened each year in our 13, relatively compact, county area.
My final comment.
Chuck
I know for my town we are not allowed in the public schools due to Title 7 and Title 9 so the school entry is of zero value.
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