Just spent a week at scout camp, saw our scouts using knifes and other "sharp" tools.
(From what I saw the camp Trading Post only sold folding knife, some with blade locks.)
Are they the best at it, no. They are still learning.
Often you have to allow them to use a dull tool before they will believe you that it does not work worth a darn.
I have trained Charlie to handle "sharp" tools. And the correct way to safely carve.
In our Troop the Scout Master has banned fixed blade knifes for everyone (yes, even adults).
Not that he has ever been on a camp out since Charlie flew up into Boy Scouts.
Now I am not saying he is an idiot or anything, but I do carry a fixed blade knife in my pack. (shhhh don't tell anyone)
It's just a knife for cutting up food you know.
If I were ever to need it I would use it, for cutting up food or anything else.
When we reenact Charlie and other boys will often come to my camp site and use my trade knifes that I display.
They know the safety rules and follow them. I watch and make sure.
On another note. Boy Scouts of America is not what it was when I was young in so many ways.
It keeps becoming more and more PC.
When I was at one area at camp a counselor was told by a director that he could not point his finger at anything.
Instead you have to use your whole hand. He was saying it offends people. So he couldn't point at the waiting area.
Good thing Charlie is only one year from Eagle.