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I don't disagree, but location and meeting night/time can have a lot to do with long-term success, not just the initial size of the troop. We're in the second troop. It currently has 10 scouts, but it's located in one of the outer population centers of our district. My daughter was the 5th scout on the charter. it's 12 minutes from our house. The initial "super troop" is 25 minutes from our house and requires driving past the location of the troop we joined.

The concept of linked troops was good on surface and if managed well, likely quite successful at the sharing of resources. In my experience, the implementation of linked troops was not even close to the ideal. The reality I have seen is co-ed troops instead with adults using linked troop verbiage. These troops struggle with the implementation not because of the introduction of girls, but because they did not have a strong (or even basic) understanding or use of the patrol method. Basically the girls troop implementation was less than successful because they joined a boys troop which was n

The BSA has long permitted youth to earn Eagle in 18 months, so I do not see questioning whether new female Scouts have "fulfilled the letter and spirt of the requirements" as a valid critique of girls in Scouts BSA. We can debate that in the program at large. (And @Cburkhardt, I know that was not necessarily your opinion. You were just framing the discussion) I worry less about new 16- or 17-year-old Scouts earning Eagle in 18 months than I do about 12- or 13-year-olds earning Eagle in that same amount of time. I do not mean to suggest that all the younger Eagles are undeserving (surely,

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Anyone that has watched adolescent youth in school group interaction recognizes that the girls will step back often if a strong boy asserts himself; but often when a girl takes over a group activity, the boys become more active, even though not taking charge. We need to simply let the youth determine things in each incidence, but two units with the same sponsor are just superfluous and a waste of financial resources as well as available leaders.

I do wonder how much of that is covid related. Locally it seems like most units mostly stopped growing during covid. And I’d be really reluctant to have been trying to start a new unit in 2020 or 2021. but yes I’ll believe that many areas made the mistake of growing too slowly.

They said there was considerable evidence that simply allowing coed was not the best way. They showed how many other countries saw little uptake in girls and a big drop in boys. This was shared by a person on the committee to allow girls during a national webcast.

I think the goal was to have something ready to roll out for 5th grade girls coming from cub packs. Though at the end of the day, any arbitrary date is gonna have issues. The other issue with timing is that covid almost certainly screwed over a lot units, and it hit about 1 year after the first girl troops started. Now other roll out question might be how well older scouters were handled. I wasn't at the troop level when it happened, but my impression is that vocal opposition was allowed for longer than I would have preferred.

And there is considerable evidence that the best way is to simply allow coed, as does most of the rest of the Scouting world.

I don't know about a supertroop being the right way, but I do think that scouting is better done with a larger unit than several smaller ones. We are probably better off with the goal of forming quality unit instead of a quantity of units.

I wasn't around when things got started, because we were living in another state in Feb 2019. My understanding is that our district decided to funnel all interested girls into a single "super troop", and the expectation was that it would eventually split into other units throughout the district. If that was indeed the plan, it didn't work very well, as our district only has 2 girl troops, with the second one being started by a single family that split off from that original troop, with no one else following.

There are a number of online retailers that can sell you reproduction tunics (the coat) and breeches (the pants). As has been said previously, the uniforms are expensive to most people's budgets. My troop turned 100 in 2017. I actually had been working on a "centennial" uniform for a few years prior to that. Here's me wearing it back in 2017, flooded by a picture of the tunic closer up. I recommend the US army M1912 tunic in the summer cotton fabric instead of the more expensive, heavier, and probably scratchier wool fabric. The tunic and breeches will probably cost about $350 as a

Good afternoon all! Been a little while since I frequented this part of t'interweb Anyway just doing the rounds and posting my troop's review of the year. Been a strange one. Started in semi lock down and ended up somewhat normal! If you've got 5 minutes then enjoy

I'm a retired military guy too. In the military, or any other beurocracy, there is a clear and defined hierarchy. Unless you're at the top of the heap, you have to do what you're told to do weather or not you agree or want to do it. If you don't you are subject to loose your position, money, or in some cases, your freedom. So you work hard and do what you're told so that you can move up, tell other people what to do and have fewer people telling you what to do. And, the higher you climb the less you have to worry about loosing your money or freedom. In Scouting many people like to clim