ptaylor@baughinc.com

Thanks, Your wrote: "I wonder sometimes if folks tend to overlook us because we are small, preferring to go to the larger troops in town simply because they feel that since the troop has so many boys it must be the best." I have found in the past 3 years this was indeed happing, sometimes it was the parents pushing or programs. I also found that boys going to larger troups tend to get "lost in the group" and drop out of scouting all together. We have been able to pick up three boys that got lost in large troops and where about to drop out. Keep working your contacts, stay involved

High, my name is Paul and I was where you are now 3 years ago and in fact until my son's Den crossed-over (I doubled at pack and troop levels) our troop was between 4 & 13 scouts in size. We crossed over 14 with us so we now have 27 boys. I agree with Dan, have a SPL and one or two patrols but let the boys decide. Our troop started with 4 the first year with the SPL/PL leading the group. Once we got new scouts crossing over we let them form new boy patrols so they would all be same age. As the troop grew we let the PLC combine and create patrols based on age & rank. The FCE