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[quote=Anonymous]I have a ton of family experience d in both GS and BSA.  They are both great but with different structure and strengths/weaknesses.  Is your daughter in an all girls Cub Scout troop?  My experience has been that the girls in our mixed-sex Cub Scout troop look pretty miserable by 4th-5th grade.  There is a maturity gap that develops about that time and the boys frankly are not very nice to the girls for a few years and the girls are highly irritated by the boys.  It’s a rough few years to be a girl in a male-majority activity.

GS troops are “girl led” which in reality means troop driven.  So it will totally depend on what the girls in the troop like to do and what the parents will support.  My suggestion would be that you should volunteer to get GS camp certified.  It’s a weekend long training so troops always have trouble getting a parent to volunteer for this, but without a camp certified adult, you can’t do troop camping.  (You can do things like larger encampments with other troops).  The little girls love camping so it’s key to get them acclimated to it before they turn into MS aged girls that are resistant to a lot of stuff.  
One thing about BSA is that it totally re-sets at 6th grade so she could always rejoin BSA of her GS troop turns out not to be what she wants.

But you should also check and make sure the troop has space.  Lots of troops are full up.  If they are full, if you volunteer to be a third leader they might be able to expand.[/quote]

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