15-year-old Florida girl makes history earning all Boy Scout merit badges | ABC News

“To pursue your goals is one of the greatest things you can do,” Hannah Holmes said about being one of only two girls in the history of the Boy Scouts to earn all 137 merit badges.

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[NRodsoSwaggy]

i don’t understand how getting eagle in a year is possible. for life and eagle rank you need 6 months for each meaning she would’ve needed to do scout, tenderfoot, second class and first class the day she joined. 🧐

[mattrader]

Ok so now we're just waiting for a teenager boy to earn all the girl scout merit badges too haha

[luckydavyboy]

Nobody should get eagle and every merit badge in only a year in Boyscouts especially if you have to wait several months for 3-4 ranks.

[timheusel]

so that's almost 3 badges a week, i call BS on this

[SennaLuna]

As an Eagle personally, I can say with 100% certainty that requirements were ignored/skirted/cut whatever term you want to use. the time requirements for ranks alone mean that she should NOT be an eagle this quickly, and to earn 137 merit badges in 1 year means she was non-stop cranking out 3 a week which if you ask any scout who did this legitimately, they will tell you thats just not possible. Certain merit badges like physical fitness have individual time requirements.

This was for clout and politics and nothing more. To be eagle in a year implies you reached the ranks of Scout, tenderfoot, second class, first class, and star within day 1 of joining and then on day 365 had 100% of eagle requirements including your scheduled board of review and court of honor completed. It took me a dedicated year to go from Life rank to eagle and I was active in scouting from age 6 to 18. It was literally my life as I had no other extracurricular activities growing up. Theres a reason earning 137 badges is so rare. I had maybe 35-40 in the time I crossed over from cubscouts at age 10 to my eagle board of review at 18.

She cheated. zero questions about it. A scout is honest and there's no way you honestly did this in a year. Fudging requirements is something I've come to expect from Girlscouts. no surprise this crud is now being pulled in Scouting BSA.

Adding Girls was fantastic because theres no program like BSA for girls in this country and The GSA is a horrid program riddled with sexism and politics (Try being a single father in girlscouts. You aren't allowed to camp within 500ft of your daughter for "Safety concerns" for the other girls basically presuming all men are r*pists).

This is what i was afraid of when they announced it. a few bad apples would look at the program as nothing more than a clout race (likely under the guise of misused feminism) where the merit of achievements is questionable and the reasoning behind her achievement was for clout and nothing more, and that is the antithesis of what makes a good Scout. Honesty and honor.

One of the most common scout songs used at meetings and camping (to the tune of o christmas tree) includes the lyrics "Have I kept my honor bright, can I guilt-less sleep tonight?" And I would be hardpressed to believe this young lady can. I encourage all youth to give scouting a try, but "scouts" like this, female or male, make my blood boil.

[F_cena]

Girl scouts is boring
Baking cookie badge
Cleaning the kitchen badge
No wonder girls want out

[cljoe]

All the boy scouts badges in the world couldn’t mend a persons character to perfection. Its the 8 kanto badges that really matter

[erl]

Did Girl Scouts just not think of doing more badge ideas?

[clsrunner]

All the comments are saying they shouldn't call it boy scouts anymore and they don't even know the names already been changed. It's been Scouts BSA officialy for over a year.

[gustavogoikoetxea]

aren’t they bankrupt? And with like 90k sexual allegations?

[djbrucewayne]

Hold up. Scout leader here. How is it possible to earn eagle and all those merit badges in maximum 2 years. Girls have not been in Scouts BSA for any longer. There is no such thing as rush to eagle. It is about development not how fast you get their.something doesn't smell right.

[dumashange]

Really! The Boy Scouts of America has set aside over A BILLION DOLLARS to settle sexual abuse claims going back decades, a parallel to the Roman Catholic Church which too has sexually abused boys for decades. It is not an honor to be associated with such organizations

[oscarkoop]

There is absolutely no way she accomplished this the right way. They pushed her through, she's a cheater.

[Marknd]

Im an Eagle Scout and now those girls are making it an embarrassment to the organization.

I have zero idea as to why they didn't just add some hiking trails and big projects in Girl Scouts like Boy Svouts did and still do.
Guess they were lazy about it.


But I am now uncomfortable because this Girl used whatever s*** and actually pulled it off to get Eagle. Feminism at it's finest hour

[OfMiceAndMegabytes]

Gotta love how the original ES's here don't buy this for a minute. Call me when the troop leaders finally admit fraud.

[lordjacobstroman]

All the haters just feel emasculated, I was a Boy Scout and congratulate her.

[metallifanfirst]

But can she bake cookies like the girl scouts can??

[johnbreymann]

I want to see a print out of the merit badges in date order they were completed. Then the name of the counselors and their telephone number. This is BS. Fraud is no way to "earn" anything little girl. Politics will suit you fine though.

[lexismith]

Hannah: Broke a record, got all the Boy Scouts medals at age 15. Wants to study political science, become a U.S Senator. 😍

Me: Eating chips on my bed, still contemplating what I want to do with my life. 😂

[aaronwood]

This is a mathematical and cultural impossibility