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Originally Posted by SteelBlue
Eagle is an interesting award. It can mean very much when a kid shows initiative and completes it the way it was meant to be completed. It can mean very little if it's completed factory style. I can't tell you how many boards of review I've sat in on where the kids can't even answer a simple question about the work they've done.
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It's an interesting aspect of LDS culture in that to a large degree, there is a flywheel effect with the Eagle (at least in some wards) that is incomprehensible to scouters outside of the Church.
To LDS, scouting = Eagle. It's a rite of passage no different than getting baptized, receiving the priesthood, graduation seminary/HS, going on a mission, etc. t's "expected"
Are some kids drug through it? Sure. But the same is true of all of the above.