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"They" is not referring to Girl Scouts but to those parents pushing to make Boy Scouts coed instead of pushing to make Girl Scouts more adventurous, rugged and focused on outdoor skills.[/quote]

Hasn't it occurred to you that the parents pushing to make a Cub Scout program available to their daughters as well as their sons might just be looking for a sensible solution that fits their lives?

I have heard of a pack where the boys all meet one night a week for den meetings, and someone takes the girls to a different room and they do similar activities there, under the Learning for Life program.  Parent's LOVE the convenience and the girls like the Cub Scout program just as much as the boys do.   [/quote]

Then they should sign up for a coed scout group like Fireside.[/quote]

Pulling from the BSA video, he also pointed out that if they open Cub Scouts to girls they are really going to have to look at opening all the way through Eagle. Then they are going to have to figure out a way to try to keep the single gender scouting in Scouts. They suggested having girl only or boy only troops...separate but equal. But this does not take into account that in many (if not most) areas there will not be enough interested girls to field entire dens and programs (after all they will now be competing with Girl ascouts to draw in girls). So either girls will have to drive farther to find "girl" Boy Scout troops, or they are going to push the it's not fair narrative (it won't be) that they are prevented from just joining their local pack, den or troop, and pressure boy scout troops that were told by BSA they would be allowed to remain single gender to be forced to become coed to accomodate the 2-4 girls at each grade who aren't enough to staff a troop of their own and who shouldn't need to drive a neighborhood or two away to find a girl Boy Scout troop.

Boy scouts should not go coed, especially the way they are proposing. Saying that individual packs and dens will have the option of choosing to remain boy only is a lie and tuey know it. In very short order single gender boy scouting will be over if they go with what BSA is proposing.[/quote]

Saying all this, although I am VERY against BSA making Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts coed and open to girl membership, I have no objections to them creating a new organization for girls, single gender scouting, with a new name and its own traditions, that follows the advancement model of Boy Scouts. I also am not against expanding Venture Scouting to younger ages.[/quote]

And somewhere (we all know this will happen) some troop or pack is going to resist making themselves coed, because they were promised by BSA they have the option of remaining single gender.  And that girl(s)' familiy(ies) are going to go to the media, and the Boy Scouts and that specific Scout troop  in particular is going to get savaged in the media, called sexist, misogynistic, etc, when ll they wanted to do was to continue with and reap the benefits of single gender scouting as they were promised by BSA they would be allowed to do.[/quote]

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