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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have trouble believing a lot of what is in this article for one main reason. BSA does not allow kids under the age of 11 into a Troop unless they were 10 when they bridged over from a Cub Scout Pack. Maybe she was in a Den for her grade in a Pack and bridged over really early as an AOL but the liability issues would be crazy. A 10 year old SPL, Senior Patrol Leader, is hard to fathom. 1) 10 is the earliest a Scout would be allowed into a Troop. 2) I don’t believe that there is a Troop out there where the Scouts would elect a 10 year old as the SPL. Seriously, most of the kids running for that position are at least 13 years old. There might be the occasional 12 year old but that is a real stretch and would be a small Troop. It doesn’t mention what Troop she is in so maybe a really small Girls Troop, because the BSA does not allow Coed Troops and the Girls Troops are 5 years old so many are small.

It feels like a fair amount of this child’s path has been exaggerated. No doubt she is smart but this feels like a kid whose native intelligence has been molded into something else by her parents to garner attention and potentially a pay check. I am going to guess that she will be doing something very different when she is an adult and able to walk away from whatever her parents have engineered for her. [/quote]

Yeah, the scouts part jumped out at me too.  Assuming they aren't blatently lying, I'm assuming she's in a girls troop of 5 or so, with all the kids being 10 -12 years old and no older kids.  [/quote]

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