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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry for your terrible experience! But I know many women who are passionate about how Girl Scouts enriched their lives. Exactly like BSA, it is highly dependent on your local troop. If your daughter has a friend enjoying Girl Scouts, it sounds like it’s a decent trip.

It also sounds like some of the BSA halo is because of your father’s involvement. It’s wonderful that your daughter has a mom who will support her in doing her own thing.[/quote]

I am a woman who dropped Girl Scouts because it was boring and there was not enough outdoor activities. I would have strongly preferred Cub Scouts and a Scout Troop. DS is in BSA and I think it is an amazing program.

But, like all things, it really depends on the adults who are willing to put the time and energy into the program. BSA has a strong advantage over Girl Scouts in that Packs/Troops continue on year after year. You can find more adults willing to take the hours long training needed for camping and backpacking and other activities because the Pack/Troop is larger. If only 20% of the Pack/Troop is volunteering you have a large enough pool of parents to handle the requirements for all sorts of activities. Girl Scout Troops are smaller, the size of a BSA Den/Patrol, and transitory so it is harder to find parents who will go through the training that is needed.

I have friends who have moved from other parts of the country who left BSA because the Packs/Troops in their areas were dominated by more religiously driven folks or stereotypical Southern Conservatives and they found the Pack/Troops too traditional or conservative. I am sure that there are folks who would never join my kids Troop because we are too Liberal. The individual Packs/Troops end up reflecting the values/ideals of the adult leaders. Girl Scouts is probably the same way.[/quote]

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