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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Our existing troops don’t want your girl, but we have such a great program that you should gladly agree to form your own troop and run the entire thing just to create a slot for your daughter.  You are plain lazy not to do so.  By the way, when you form your own troop you will gladly spend months complying with our procedures and engaging in retail product sales to pay the salaries of our professionals.”

There is a big difference between this program
 and business approach and that of other opportunities.  Think carefully before you agree to do this.  Narrow your focus to only that which is best for your daughter.  Select an organization that will serve your family and not the other way around.[/quote]

I'm a 12 year Girl Scout, Gold Award Girl Scout, and now a leader for six years.  this is definitely something I still can not figure out how BSA does so much better. [b]They seem to ALWAYS have room for kids, with no limit.  And I just don't know how they do it!  GS has really strict adult to child ratios.  They're hard and fast rules that just can not and should not be broken.  So when a leader says there's not room for a girl in her troop, she's telling the truth most of the time.  (Not saying there aren't crappy mean-girl mom leaders, because those crappy mean-girl people exist in all aspects of life, but they aren't the usual.)  
I can't figure out how Boy Scouts can just keep taking boys!  Do they not have the same ratio requirements?[/b]

As for cookies sales - that is so totally troop dependent.  My troop does 3 weekends of cookie booths per year.  We do well during those weekends, and that's the end of that.  It's less time than popcorn and wreaths and mulch seem to take up from our local BSA troop.
But I realize some leaders make cookies into a months-long production.  [/quote]

Its because Cub Scouts is organized differently. Cub Scouts has grade level dens within the pack. So if they have too many kids in a den they split the den but are still in the same pack. They just need a couple parents to run that den. Girl scouts has the one troop and thats it. And if there's no more space you have to form an entirely new troop.

Visit all of the different Join Scouting nights of packs near you and see what feels right, observe the kids and the parents, ask questions. https://www.scouting.org/programs/cub-scouts/ 
They are all different in how they are run and the makeup of the kids. We just switched out of the pack at our elementary to a different one that was a much better fit for us. The thing I love about our new pack is that the older dens organize and run all of the pack meetings, which is what they will do as older scouts. I love that aspect of the program.[/quote]

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