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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm actually a little depressed reading this. I am a scout leader and am incredibly grateful for the positive experiences my daughter has had. The Girl Scout camps (mine goes to one in Southern Md. for two weeks every summer.) are fabulous and affordable thanks to the cookie sales. A similar camps costs about 3-4 times as much.[/quote]

I'm a former Girl Scout leader and I am thrilled that my daughter does not want to be a part of it anymore. The cookie sales turned her off Girl Scouts altogether. She does still go to the camps, however.

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So basically you are reaping the rewards of others' hard work. As a troop leader, you set the standard for how many cookies your troop sells or how seriously take it. I'm a troop leader and some girls sell 10 boxes -- some 300. And that's OK. We all participate (by choice) in the booth sales -- which allows us some money to take trips. I am a leader but we personally don't "sell" any. We buy 40 boxes -- give to  our (large) family -- and then participate in two booth sales.

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Exactly, you should be ashamed that you continued to send your daughter to camp subsidized by the efforts of others.  I'm the cookie mom for our troop and we do not require any of the girls to sell.  We hope they participate and can work a shift at a booth (an hour for each girl), but it is not mandatory.  Our girls really enjoy it, in fact, I just finished at one with my daughter a little bit ago.  So far, some girls have sold 12 (the minimum if you want the patch), while a few others are over 200 each.

We also make sure our girls (who are just Daisies) are involved in how we spend the money the troop earns.  So far, they have wanted to use it for camping trips and are having a ball.  We made about $500 last year from our cookie sale.

For those who are not involved in scouts, troops earn 65 cents for every $4 box sold.  The rest of the profit goes to the Council for things like subsidizing day and overnight camps and other programs.[/quote]

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