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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two cub scouts. I like that its boys only. The boys are more comfortable this way. There are girls that attend as siblings and they rarely participate. They go off into their own corner and do their own thing. I'm certain that if I asked my 10 yr old he would say no to adding girls.[/quote]

Why are the girls there? Would they partipate if someone created a den for them? Seems pointless to just hang out.[/quote]

My daughter goes because she has to.  I can't leave her at home.  For cub scouts, I have to stay.  I'm hoping that by boy scouts it is drop off.[/quote]

So if you have to stay, and you have to bring your girls, and other parents do too.... how can your boys say they like that cub scouts is boys only?   Obviously there are girls there, just not really doing anything.

Why would it be any skin of their noses if the girls were off in their own girl-only cub scout den at the same time that the boys were in their boy only cub scout den?

Wouldn't that make it easier for you as a parent?[/quote]

DP but that's not how it works.  The dens all meet at different times and places so even if there was a girls' den, it wouldn't help with the childcare problem.  this is another difference with GS, actually--with GS, the expectation is that you will drop off because they are trying to foster girls' independence.  With cub scouts, parents are expected to stay so you end up with a bunch of younger sibs (girls and boys) playing on iPhones or tablets.  [/quote]

Your den is doing it wrong if parents are all staying beyind 1st-2nd grade.[/quote]

Girl Scouts is drop off from the beginning - even the Daisies.  [b]And it's the 1st and 2nd grade boys who are far more likely to have siblings who can't be left alone at home for the meetings.[/b][/quote]

The holded is one of the silliest statements posted on this entire thread. 1st and 2nd grade girls are just as likely to have young aged siblings as 1st & 2nd grade boys.[/quote]

Logic and deduction aren't your strong suits, are they?  It's not that the  BOYS are more likely than girls to have younger siblings, but that 1st and 2nd graders (the ones who, apparently, aren't allowed to be dropped off) that are more likely to have younger siblings than the older boys.  It was in response to a poster saying that anyone staying beyond 1st or 2nd grade was doing it wrong.  My point is that if the problem is younger siblings trailing along because they're too young to be left at home, that's more likely to be a problem with the 1st and 2nd graders than with the older boys.  Make sense?[/quote]

It does not matter if younger siblings are there anyway hanging out. They cannot join their sibking's scout den, period.

Cub Scouts is grade specific. Each level, bobcat, tiger, wolf, bear and weblos, is linked to one specific grade and have specific advancements for each grade.

So even is five year old Larla is there every week hanging out at her second grad brother's den meeting, she cannot become a wolf no matter how convenient it is for mom.  And even if she follows along with everythig her brother's wolf den does, she cannot be a bobcat because the 2nd graders are not working on five year old bobcat skills. They are working on wolf skills only.  The bobcats are at a different place and time working on bobcat skills.

So the argument that Larla should be allowed to become a scout because she is there every week anyway, following along with her brother's wolf den is an invalid argument and not a legitimate reason for cub scouts to become coed and let Larla join.

Unless they are twins in the same grade, Larla cannot just become a wolf Cub Scout with her brother because it is convenient.

She can't even if she were a brother or decided to identify as a boy.[/quote]

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