That’s too bad. Some countries have girls and boys in separate troops, but doing the same program. I think that’s a good idea, based on what we’ve seen with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Everyone I know with experience in both organizations thinks the Boy Scouts have the much better program and structure.
Well they still have the Girl Scouts. Inclusion only works one way, in that the Boy Scouts were considered to be the same.
They had them separate when I was there. I was in Scouting for 10 years, and I thought it was a huge mistake to try to put the two together. I remember filling a 500 standing auditorium of kids when they tried to bring all of them together.
To go from 500-6 is a disaster. I had thought it might shrink somewhat, but to that extent? No. And this is just in 15 years or so.
Girls in the USA can join BSA Venturing, which is typically more “high adventure” related stuff.
But keep in mind, that the Scouting movement in many countries is dictated by the societal norms of that country.
BSA National (USA) has no say so over what Canadian, Nepalese, or European Scouts do. It’s up to each individual organization to decide.
I was told a story from a US Scouter who took his US troop (military dependent kids of service members stationed in Germany) to a European “Jamboree” and the Germans had male and female Scouts bunking together. He had to have an enclosure made for them because the German gals thought nothing of going topless. His boys were a bit upset at the enclosure.
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