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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a Girl Scout Brownie through Senior. My DS is working on his Eagle Scout rank now. I loved being a GS, but Boy Scouts is the far superior program.[/quote] Did you earn your Gold Award? I did, and there were plenty of Eagle projects less rigorous than mine. I think the program is what you make of it.[/quote] I earned my Silver and Gold Awards; I was a Girl Scout leader for 9 years; and I have a son currently working towards Eagle Scout. The Girl Scout and Boy Scout (now called Scouts BSA) programs are completely different. Scouts BSA (Boy Scouts) has a program based on an advancement system. Boys don't have to advance, but if they want to, they complete certain requirements and earn badges to advance to the next level. Girl Scouts USA program is not based on advancement in the same way, and even what badges we have are rather vague in their requirements. Also, most every badge is "customizable" and there aren't even rules on who can buy a badge or who can "award" a badge or determine that a badge has been earned. Girls can just earn badges on their own, decide when they are done, and go buy te badge. Not saying one way is better or worse than another. But they are completely different! While the individual Gold Award projects might have been more complicated to plan and carry out than an individual Eagle project, the Eagle project is only *one part* of a long road towards earning Eagle Scout. I have been watching my son on this journey. It is HARD to get even to Life Scout Rank. There are SO MANY requirements along the way. 21 required merit badges, for instance, and some of these badges take months to earn (like Camping -- requires 20 nights of camping!) . There's just nothing similar in Girl Scouts, which is why SOME girls are interested in doing the Scouts BSA (Formerly Boy Scout) program. [/quote]
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