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[quote=Anonymous]I am a lifelong Girl Scout. When I did it in Massachusetts, we had them all set up within each elementary school, so we had a Brownies (Daisy hadn't been invented), Juniors in our Elem School, a Cadette troup in our middle school and a Senior Scout in our high school.  So each troup was 3 grades in it ( Brownies was grades 1-3, Juniors Gr 4-6, Cadettes 7-9, Seniors 10-12 grades.  I went through the entire thing, then travelled internationally, did some wider opportunities, etc.

Now it seems that troops start with a group of girls in 1st grade and they stay together through Brownies, Juniors and Cadettes.

I think that can work, and the kids get really close, but I also have seen where leaders are so used to parenting/leading the little kids where they had to do it all that they never pushed/encouraged/expected the girls to take over more responsibility as the years go on.  As Cadettes we ran our tro0p, with an adult around as a coach/support/question answerer.  In Juniors we did lots of things ourselves with more guidance from our troop leaders.

Again, though, so much relies on the leaders, how much energy they have, and whether the parents of the girls are also willing to help, drive, support, etc.  It's not babysitting one night/afternoon a week - it's a troop and everyone needs to participate in some kind of way or it's just a leader trying to push a rock uphill all the time, and given that most women are now working (instead of most Moms being at home in the 60, 70s) we don't have hours to spend on leading a troop![/quote]

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