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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a Girl Scout Brownie through Senior. My DS is working on his Eagle Scout rank now. I loved being a GS, but Boy Scouts is the far superior program.[/quote]

GS mom, BS son. GS camping and camps for Cub Scout age kids are far superior. [/quote]

Girl Scout mom with son in Scouts BSA here.  I'll agree, I think our Girl Scouts camps in the DC region are good.  And, I prefer the former younger scout program in Girl Scouts (the one we had before the Journeys/"Leadership Experience" came down the pike) to the current Cub Scout program.

The current Girl Scout Daisy/Brownie/Junior program is not great and the program for older girls (Cadette/Senior/Ambassador) is even worse.  Leaders will find a way to make it work, but those who do it best will admit that they customize nearly everything and are constantly reinventing the wheel because the program materials are so useless.

My co leader and I worked hard through the years to help our girls have a meaningful experience but everything we did that they enjoyed was NOT part of the official programming.   At one point we were buying old Girl Scout badges off the black market (the GREAT old Junior badges and Cadette Interest Projects or Councils Own badges) or using Boy Scout materials found online.

Girl Scouts USA is not and was not interested in hearing that their materials made Scouting difficult to implement in a real world troop without a captive audience.  It seems they wrote the curriculum (it really reads like a curriculum) for a classroom where are leader/teacher can basically count on having her girls 95% of the time.  Not based on girls showing up, skipping a few meetings, coming back, which is what happens in the real world of an extracurriculuar club.     They are not and were not interested in hearing feed back that the materials were dumbed down or too much like school.   They are paying lip service to the idea of Girls Can Do Anything and are heavily promoting "STEM" with this new Robotics and Coding badges, but the badges themselves are written poorly, dumbed down, and are not very skill based.   
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