Exclusion

One of the fundamentals of the Boys' Brigade Youth club is to instill discipline in its members.
However officers appear to give up at points.  When they've been wound too far they begin to reach the point of excluding them.  Sadly sometimes they reach the point far too easily.
If I am ever forced to exclude a member i will consider myself to have failed.  It's against the original objective.  And yet when the question is brought up i must admit that i have cowered and not confronted the situation.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing.
So when one of the boys had been in trouble i found one of the officers telling the parents that he was on his last chance or he wouldn't be allowed to come.  I listened but didn't speak.  I still haven't brought up the subject despite the time i've had considering how to go about it.
It just worries me that some of these troublemakers are best off in a group like the Boys' Brigade which i have seen change people for the better over and over.  Some even come to find it their last refuge amongst problems going on elsewhere.  To put it simply, it's the troublemakers that need our help more then any other.
Our BB did once exclude a member for 2 weeks and they never came back.  But they had learnt a lot from the BB, they had even begun to change their ways, albeit not dramatically.
The kids they have problems with in one company are under 10!  An age where they can change so easily and have a long time yet to mature and become the good men the Boys' Brigade creates.  To quit so early on them would be very distressing.  I do hope they change their ways and look at creating a disciplined environment soon, in the mean time i will eventually work up the confidence to bring the case forward.