Troop_Dad

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I found this today, and I had to share it. I've posted it on several Girl Scout and BSA forums. This is way too cool. YIS Rich http://www.chroniclenewspapers.com/articles/2006/02/17/north_county/news/news02.txt High School Seniors Make Scouting History--Ten Young Women Earn Highest Awards from Boy and Girl Scouts of America The young women from Girl Scout Troop/Boy Scout Venturing Crew 1886 made history on Friday, February 10, at a Court of Honor ceremony. All 10 of these Scouts earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, equivalent to the Boy Scout rank of Eagle Scout. In a rar

ACCO40, I agress with you. Rich

Hey Fuzzy Bear, That will work. And if your a male 01 in the troop, your council will misquote Safety Wise and try to make you sleep 1/2 mile away from the troop in another campsite. No, I'm not kidding. All, it says is seperate sleeping accomidations not seperate zip codes. Rich

The patrol method works if and only if your troop is big enough to support 2 or more patrols. A Patrol being 6-8 girls. It also works if and only if the patrol leaders are properly trained to led. Plus the troop needs to have a Court of Honor/ Patrol leaders council to plan out the events and meetings. Otherwise it's just a girl with a yellow troop. YIS Rich

Fuzzy Bear Wrote" " In spite of how people choose to live in different ways and even though there is a general acceptance of those arrangements and even if the unconventional relationship is based on love, joy and rich fulfillment, the BSA is not as accepting. I find that answering this question stretches the limits way beyond rational thought, logic, and convention, so it is easier to separate the men and the women and just go camp. FB" I have the raise the B.S. Flag on this one. Per Safety Wise,people are seperated by sex not by relationships. So a Homosexual couples ca

Safety Wise (Girl Scout Version of G2SS prohibits Mixed Adults from sharing sleeping accomidations. That includes married couples. It also prohibits Dads from sharing a tent with their daughters. Female leaders can share a tent with the girls but not their husbands. Rich

I think that key thing is what to you or the girls define as camping. ( i.e. In a tent on the floor in a sleeping bag or at camp on a bed in a cabin? ) It's also going to depend on the amount of equipment that the girls or the troop has. Rich

IF your daughter would like to attend Cub Scout meeting and the den doesn't have a problem with it, then let her. Make sure that you have two oththe leaders there too. Register her as a Juliette Girl Scout and use her activities with the Den toward her Girl Scout Advancement. She not member of Cub Scouts but a observer. If you have several girls that like it, then have 4 leaders, 2 with BSA and 2 with GSUSA. Do joint meeting, joint openings and seperate advancement. From a Brother Den and Sister Troop relatiionship. If there's ever a time that GSUSA rules that you can't do