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My Son has been attending Wednesday night activities for the last 3 months. Sunday I was approached rather aggressively by the quorm advisor telling me I needed to fill out a Scout application. When I balked, my son has expressed he has no desire to progress in the BSA programs, I will not registar him if he will not set and reach goals or achivments. The leader became rather insistant that I regerster him anyways, if I wanted him to continue to attend on Wednesday Night for activities. I took this last statement to mean if he wants to continue to attend any activties durring the week he has to be a scout. Later he told me they want the boys registered for insurance purposes, that the BSA was the activity arm for the YM. In the ward I grew up in had no Scout Troop until I was 18. I walked away not taking the application. He missed the activity tognight, since sunday he has indicated he woulld sign up to be in Scouts. My whole point is he should be able to attend activites wether he is registered or not. Months ago I discussed the idea of him not being in scouts with our Bishop, he seemed to ok with it just wanted him attending and taking part in the activities. Suddenly this Pushy leaders comes across like Bruce can't attend our activities unless he is an offical Scout. These same leaders have decided to hold an additional Patrol Meeting 2 sundays a month, I thought sunday meeting were to focus on the Preisthood, not adding meetings to focus on Scouting. Is this common practices or am I dealing with overzealous leaders?