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[quote=Anonymous]I am a troop leader of 7th grade girls.  We lost a few girls this year to travel sports but we still have 9 girls.  Our troop is based at a Catholic School and over the years we have noticed that the troops based at schools that continue through middle school tend to stay together longer.  I am sure there are many factors on why this happens including the fact that these are much smaller schools and the girls tend to be friends already.  But the biggest reason I have seen is that the middle school girls have to chance to show leadership by helping out at meetings for the younger grades that meet right after school.  My dd helps out at meetings for 3 different troops during the month (and all right after school so it does not conflict with her own sports)

Because the older girls help the younger girls the younger girls LOVE them.  All of the girls in our troop are already talking about planning to stay in Girl Scouts once they get to high school because they know this will be a great way to keep in contact with thier current friends that may all end up at different schools.  As a troop we also try to do fun activities that the girls pick like high ropes courses and zip lines.  Our troop has also quickly realized that being part of the Girl Scout troop is the quickest way to get babysitting jobs that pay![/quote]

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