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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girl Scouts differs most from BSA in how much parent involvement is allowed/required. Because its ethos is all about it being “girl-led”, or at least building toward that, adults are present only in minimum, required amounts for safety ratios and supervision. So a troop of the youngest girls, Daisies, would need to have 2 registered, trained and background-checked adult volunteers present for each group of 12 girls. Parents who are not registered and background-checked are explicitly prohibited from being at meetings and events unless it’s a specific family-oriented event.

This requirement makes it more complicated to message to families how necessary volunteer involvement is vs. Cub Scouts, which starts out with a mandatory requirement that a parent is present.[/quote]

A good Troop in Scouts BSA is led by the Scouts, that applies to the kids 11 and older who are in a Troop, not a Pack. As someone else pointed out, there is training required for every type of activity a Scout does. I took 16 hours of Wilderness Survival first aid and CPR in order to be able to lead backpacking trips. Other adults have taken the same training because it is required for any trip that is an hour away from a main road or any high adventure camp. Every over night activity requires a minimum of 3 adult leaders to be able to meet the safety requirements. Meetings where we have kids working at stations require 2 adults to be able to see each station. Parent volunteers are needed so that things happen.

It is easier to hit the volunteer numbers when you have 30-60 kids in a Troop vs 10-12, which is one of the big differences between Girl Scouts and Scouts BSA. Scouts BSA Troops continue on through the years and tend to have more kids, so more parent volunteers. It is easier to distribute the work load among the parents and make a multitude of activities happen. Summer Camp for Scouts BSA sets up training for the adults who are chaperoning so that there are more trained adults.

For the OP with the kid who wants to do it all, I get it. DS does a rec sport, competition math, and Scouts. We set the night of his Scout meeting as a no practice night  so he doesn’t have a conflict. His competition math class is on Friday night. There is the occasional conflict between a game and Scouts but no one at Scouts has a problem with a child being picked up and going to a game and then returning. [/quote]

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