That's a real shame. In my day, earning your Webelos was quite a life achievement and meant a great deal, for being so young. It was not quite the same magnitude of importance as earning your Eagle, or being inducted into the Order of the Arrow, but it was significant.
"In my day, earning your Webelos was quite a life achievement and meant a great deal, for being so young."
I feel like the recognition of even eagle scout is not the same today. With lower participation rates, many people don't know what the process entails. To be honest, I don't know what the requirements were for the arrow of light, and that's something I earned (using tools, power tools, camping, etc, but not sure of the specifics).
I've even taken things like eagle scout and college club president (more demanding since you're unsupervised dealing with budgets, personnel, and grants) off my resume since nobody cares about or understands those, especially not in IT.
I'm pretty sure that getting an Eagle helped me get admitted to Caltech. But I never put it on a resume after college, as I doubted anyone cared. I have since known employers who were Eagles themselves say they regarded it as a positive on the resume.
I never even made Tenderfoot, but the Eagles I've known have been largely among the best people. Granted, I'd raise an eyebrow somewhat to see it on a resume especially these days, just because of the novelty if nothing else, but at minimum I wouldn't think less of someone for it.
How could I forget about Arrow of Light? Now that is the crowning achievement for any Cub Scout!
From my fuzzy memory, this was more of an award than a proper rank, but could only be earned by someone of the Webelos rank. Or something along those lines.
Many of us had this plastic diamond thing attached to a button on our class A shirt, and the diamond had 4 slots, one per rank with Webelos being the bottom of the diamond. Arrow of Light was a special patch you sewed directly onto your uniform.
