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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Older kids might enjoy Venture Scouts or Sea Scouts more then a Scout Troop. Venture Scouts do more "extreme" trips and the like and is co-ed. [b]Scout Troops are still gender specific and the plan is to keep them that way. So there are Female Troops and Male Troops.[/b] They might do activities together but they are separate Troops and Patrols.[/quote]

not anymore.  my kid's boy scout troop has "family scouting."  there are girls in his troop.  when my daughter gets older, we'll probably just sign her up for family scouting.  it's easier for us logistically and honestly, the activities the boy scouts do are often more interesting that the girl scout activities (the stupid cookie selling and family budgeting unit at least.)
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If the Council finds out that there are girls in a boys Troop there is likely to be some action taken. Girls and Boys are suppose to be in different Troops. Mixed dens at the Cub Scout level is frowned upon but seems to be ok, because of the age of the kids. We were specifically told that once there are 4 girls of the same age, we were suppose to create a girls den.

Girls are suppose to have their own Troops and their own Patrols. There is an acknowledgement that it will be easier, in the beginning, for female and male troops to hold events together but girls are suppose to have their own camp site totally independent of the boys. I am on my sons Pack Committee and attend the Round tables and the like. While there are Troops that are trying to work around the gender segregation, it is not something that the Local Councils and National are trying to allow. It could very well be that your family is in a Troop that has a Female and Male Troop but are holding events together. Or at least, that is the way they are presenting it to the Council and National.

I agree that the activities for Scouting BSA are attractive to girls, it is the reason that female troops were created last year. But there are suppose to be gender specific troops.

And yes, I am aware that females were also allowed because Scouting BSA is worried about declining numbers with the Mormon Church departing the organization wholesale. But there were a lot of girls going with their brothers to Cub Scout activities who were enjoying them and wanting to join Scouting BSA.[/quote]

Hang on: girls get their own dens, run by moms, but we're all in the same pack. Regardless of formal scout affiliation, the Youth Protection rules require same-gender chaperoning and two-deep with any kid, and obviously overnighting unless opposite-gender is your family. Not sure what the wrong is that you are referring to here. Can you elaborate (for real, so I can learn)?[/quote]

+1  I don't know the logistics of it, but there are girls in uniform in my son's pack too.  Which is fine with me![/quote]

The rules are different for packs (Cub Scouts) and troops (ScoutsBSA, aka Boy Scouts).  In Cub Scouts there are supposed to be separate dens for boys and girls, but all of the dens belong to the same pack, so you'll see boys and girls at a pack meeting.  At the troop level, which is Boy Scouts, not Cub Scouts, the rules say that there need to be separate troops for boys and girls.  So there shouldn't be both boys and girls in one troop.  The PP that talked about boys and girls being in the same troop mentioned family scouting, which is a Cub Scout function, not Boy Scouts - they may have meant that they have both boys and girls in their pack, which is ok.  That said, another PP was correct that BSA seems to be stricter about these rules with ScoutsBSA (maintaining separate boys and girls troops) than at the Cub Scout level.  We have mixed dens in our pack, and no one in our district or council seems to care.       [/quote]

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