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[quote=Anonymous]I think you can actually have more than 15.

We just started up a daisy troop, and we had a TON of initial interest, and ended up with 16 girls.  Some of the initially interested people disappeared after their initial interest, when they realized that it was a commitment, or when the meeting time we chose didn't work for them.

16 is a lot of girls but we make it work.  We have two leaders (I'm one), and we require at least two other parents to stay for each meeting, so we can split the girls up into groups of 4 for various activities.  Not every girl can make every meeting, which helps somewhat.  And there are usually some moms who are doing this in part to make friends with other moms - those are often the moms who can be relied on to stay and help with meetings!

If you're looking at more than 16 girls, definitely split up into two troops.  We also limited our troop size by only allowing 1st graders to join.  We had some interested K parents, but those girls wouldn't have been able to move on to brownies with us next year and would have been left behind.  So I put those parents in touch with the mom who is launching the K daisies troop later this year, and we got two girls off our roster that way.[/quote]

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