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We are at a Title 1 school that is starting its first Girl Scout troops (Daisies, Brownies). The moms who are organizing the troops are higher SES, but we also want to put out flyers to invite any girl to participate. The problem is that it's looking like we will end up with way too many girls. (Seems like 15 is the maximum size for a troop.)

How do regular (non-Title 1) schools) that have a tradition of Girl Scouts deal with this? If you have too many girls for a single troop, do you start more than one troop at the same school? [/quote]

Daughter was in scouts at large school - they never split up the troops. I've never heard of that - splitting them up seems like an awful idea
for a school based troop. Even when I was a kid it was one big troop. Do you want kids to need therapy because of the Girl Scouts? Probably not.
We had meetings at schools. [/quote]

My kid's kindergarten and first grade class had two separate troops instead of one big one and the girls love it.  You are making a big deal out of nothing.  I really think any girl would enjoy a 10 girl troop far better than a 20 girl troop because she'd have a better chance to talk and participate and get to know the other girls one on one.  It's like small class size vs. big class size.  You can still do special activities together that combine the troops, but for monthly meetings, the smaller troops are fantastic![/quote]

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