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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I had not looked at this thread for a few days and I'm grateful for all the advice! So the other moms who want to start a Daisy troop are now moving ahead without doing flyers. It's essentially going to be a club for their higher SES girls. I'm a little uncomfortable with that. Maybe no lower income girls would have joined, anyway, but it seems like they should have at least made the effort. On the other hand, it will keep the troop size down. Maybe its ok considering that they're starting the troop midway through the year.[/quote]

I'm a new troop leader.  If you can get folks on board with really encouraging participation next year, this may not be so bad in the long run.  Getting a GS troop up and running, especially with no prior GS experience, is a royal, bureaucracy filled PITA. And after 2 meetings I can say for sure that running a *good* meeting is a learned skill. The learning curve on all this is not to be underestimated. So let this spring be a 'lets figure out how to do this on our own kids' experiment, and then next year once the leaders have a clue you can push to make it a more inclusive experience for all the girls the way it should be.[/quote]

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