Coed Troops

[qwazse]

@Tron good questions, but the honest answer: if it works, it will take decades.

[Tron]

4 hours ago, qwazse said:

@Tron good questions, but the honest answer: if it works, it will take decades.

Maybe ... but something to think about. We're (my town) in a weird situation where the biggest female troop in our district is in the town over and almost every female scout is from my town and not that town. The DE is structurally  blocking new linked and coed troops to keep the existing female troops healthy. In addition to those female scouts we're losing the brothers to that troop as well (parents don't want to drive to 2 different places on the same nights). That troop is 1 of 3 linked/coed troops; because of geography it's sort of the only game in town and sucking the air out of the room because of that. That troop is so large that it churns through crossovers and survives on gravitational affect alone. I think, and I have told my commissioner and DE the following: Once my towns troops have the ability to provide the program to female scouts it might kill that other towns mega troop. It's an upsetting discussion for them. As of right now the '26 crossover cohort in my town is female heavy; so is the '27 cohort. If the local troops are allowed to go coed in December the neighboring town (based on discussion with the crossover parents) will lose out on 10-40 scouts over the next 24 months. That's pretty much immediate affect in this program.

[Eagle94-A1]

That is pretty much what happened in the UK when their program went coed. Sure you could have all male, all female, and coed troops. But over time the all the single gender units died out any only all female exist today. Or so I am told.  

[Tron]

26 minutes ago, Eagle94-A1 said:

That is pretty much what happened in the UK when their program went coed. Sure you could have all male, all female, and coed troops. But over time the all the single gender units died out any only all female exist today. Or so I am told.  

Well when we look at family packs in my district we have a couple of hold out "boy only" packs but they are down to a handful of scouts and when those kids crossover the packs are dead; everyone else is a coed family pack now.