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[quote=Anonymous]Be nice. I don’t know how I got myself into this, either.

I’m one of 3 co-leaders for a Girl Scout troop associated with a private school. The other leaders focus on older girls in the troop and I stepped up years ago during the pandemic to help the younger girls.

The activities I agreed to help lead for younger girls are badge work for outdoor experiences. Other parents have said for years that they’ll take over cookies and get background checked and lead other meetings, but they never do.

The parents of most girls in our troop are really protective so very few girls have participated in camping trips or outdoor skills training. A handful of girls are very into selling cookies, which takes a ton of time and work. Inevitably, the girls with the highest sales and who create the most work for us in terms of cookie warehouse visits and organization and financial management are the girls with the most hands-off parents. Year after year I find myself waiting for the cookie delivery semi-truck at 7 am on a holiday Saturday because other parents are in the Caribbean or skiing or whatever.

Anyway, I’m finding myself in the position of providing most of my volunteer time to make life good for the least-engaged families in the troop. I want to stop after this spring. I’ve hinted at it and have been guilted and told that if I stop, the troop will die (it’s been active for over a decade) and all of our funds will be lost (the girls refuse to plan trips or spend the money).

Should I say now that I will be done in May so new people can step up if it matters to them? Am I a bad person for walking away? I’ll be part of this private school community as a parent for another 7 years, so I have to play somewhat nice and am really worried about being blamed as the one who killed the troop. Really, it’s widespread parent indifference that will kill it, but no one will see it that way.[/quote]

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