In brief, it’s a good program under the jurisdiction of an awful organization. Even if the abuse incidents never happened, there are fundamental aspects of the experience that I find quite objectionable, to the point that they’re hard to overlook in favor of the positives, but I don’t think I can adequately convey the nuance of those feelings without literally writing an essay. That said, there IS a lot of merit to a community teaching practical, social, and civic skills to young people, even if the institution of scouting has too much baggage to be the one to do it