The highly successful UK Junior XC program vs. USA's nonexistantJunior XC program. Why?

Dude - lead, follow or get out of the way. Whining is counter-productive - it sucks energy out of everyone who's put actual effort into doing something, as well as those who might.

Talk is cheap - on the 'net it's really cheap.

9B

I'm not part of the SSA leadership. Isn't that what they do, dude?

What are there objectives?

Where are the progress reports?

What are the goals?

Dude?

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 7:25:34 AM UTC-5, Sean Fidler wrote:
I'm not part of the SSA leadership. Isn't that what they do, dude?

What are there objectives?

Where are the progress reports?

What are the goals?

Dude?

You remind me of Trump, dude

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 5:25:34 AM UTC-7, Sean Fidler wrote:
I'm not part of the SSA leadership. Isn't that what they do, dude?

What are there objectives?

Where are the progress reports?

What are the goals?

Dude?

Without nit-picking the finer points of having objectives vs goals...

You can run for leadership and work to put all those things in place and inspire volunteers to mange them. That would be "lead".

You can volunteer to support the current structure for junior soaring and be part of the system to execute whatever goals leadership decides on - but not have a vote on direction yourself. That would be "follow". If you had some real energy for it, leadership might even endorse a well thought-out proposal for you and others you enlist to help you to execute some new ideas. That would be super cool.

The last option I hope is self-evident.

I'm not saying the current state is ideal or that there is nothing that can be done better, but calling volunteers out for not doing things that a) may not even be priorities (vs the hundreds of other challenges the SSA faces) or even supportable with the current (mostly volunteer) resourcing, and, b) you yourself aren't even willing to put effort into, is a bit beyond the pale.

There have been some useful thoughts and comments here, but little different will happen unless people step in and put their time and energy into it. The SSA can endorse their efforts but the work needs to come from the membership.