Girl Scouts Get Marching Orders From Liberal Pressure Groups

Your post made me smile. I'm an Eagle w/3 Palms and Bronze Hornaday Dad. My youngest daughter this spring just received her Gold Award. She was having trouble getting the form for the Gold Award from her council so she said "Ok we're a BSA family I'll just use the Eagle Packet." Three days later she had the form. Then to add a twist to it, part of the project involved a nature walk for 3rd graders to learn about a Riparian Preserve, using my copy of the 1948 BSA Field Book to help her identify to the 3rd graders the animal tracks, plants, etc. She then had several family friends that were involved in both scouting programs review her write up just to make sure that it was up to the highest of standards for submission by either scouting program. At the award ceremony there were 5 adults in BSA uniform to see her get her award.

She had paid close attention to her brother's scout training, working on his Eagle project and 4 projects required for his Hornaday, so she knew how to put OUT in the Girl ScOUT activities for her Gold Award.

I'm sure plenty of the cookie money goes to National Council, but there's no getting around that. National can sponsor all these programs that they want, but if the girls aren't interested, they won't go anywhere. Our girls are not forced to take part in any programs like that in order to advance, and believe me, if anyone made any moves in that direction, they'd have the force of PLENTY of women come down on their heads!

And Congrats to you as an Eagle and Siver Star future Gold Star Mom.

If your son is under 18 he may want to check out the Hornaday Conservation Award requirements. BTW, Girl Scouts can earn it too.

Thanks for the Hornaday info; I'll pass it along to the Service Unit.

Our Eagle will be 25 in October. He's in Paris this month doing some International Law Studies with some of his Cornell Law School classmates.

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