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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a natural off-ramp at the Cub Scout/BSA transition. About half our den broke away at that point.[/quote]

100%, a good number of Scouts drop out at bridging. That seems to be the point when parents give their kids the option to continue or stop.

One of the nice things about Scouts, as a Cub or in a Troop, is that it allows you to pick and choose what you do. We have a bunch of Scouts in our Troop that are active but they are not ranking up. When you talk to them about what is happening, they don’t care about the rank but they love the camp outs and rock climbing and the like. They are all in a position to rank up quickly when they decide that they want to. They move to the Troop at 10 or 11, they are young and enter something where they have time to figure things out.

Our Troop has two waves of Eagle, one group earns Eagle at 14-15 and the other earns Eagle at 17, a few weeks before they turn 18. You see a lot of maturing over those years. It is fun to watch.

But it is not for everyone. I just hope that the parents are letting the kids decide and not asking their kids if they want to be with the nerds in Scouts or the cool kids in sports. That is such an outdated stereotype. [/quote]

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