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[quote=Anonymous]This is a really good summary of the problems with GSUSA today.  Outdoor programming is being lost; camps are being closed; these new "Journeys" are being brought in and they are expensive, boring, and useless.   Girls are dropping left and right and leaders are abandoning ship because they are trying to do these "Leadership Journeys" that the girls HATE (too much like school).  Cookie sales, as this author says, ARE becoming the program -- financial literacy + nebulous "leadership" goals.  It makes me very sad to see what is happening to an organization that I love.

[quote]Also, the reasoning for the camp closures was a mystery. On the local level, we were told it was a financial decision. If you looked at the National mission and goals though, you could see that they had pretty well written out camping as having a place in their new programming. The cookie sales had become the program. Girls were to learn leadership skills through selling boxes and boxes of cookies. But with this new shift, the girls are both funding their local council management and then serving as customers for the Journeys books, badges, programs, and whatever gimmicky sparkly trinkets GSUSA tries to market to them.[/quote]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/22/1225610/-Girl-Scouts-of-America-and-the-Zombie-Virus-part-1#[/quote]

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