Portsmouth School Committee says COPE not a Boy Scout program

Portsmouth School committee chair David Croston, at this evening's meeting, explained that despite what was communicated to parents, the COPE field trip is actually being run by a third party called Learning for lifehttp://www.lflri.org/ — therefore, there’s no entanglement issue.

I'm sorry about my mistake. By way of explanation, I'Il just point to the documents that were sent home, and note that if you go to the Learning for Life web site and click on "Contact us now" you might still be confused. Even more so if you look up who owns the domain. http://whois.domaintools.com/lflri.org

It appears that Learning for Life is a subsidiary of the BSA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_for_Life

My apologies to the Committee and anyone in the Scouting community who found themselves, in this instance, an inappropriate target for my remarks.

Update:
Full text of statement to School Committee
Exhibits referenced in statement