Same here.
Our breaking point was when my daughters went on a "three day survival camping trip." They were told to pack light ... only two changes of clothes and nothing else. And, of course, they were told to expect the worst.
Their troop leader drove them to a "scout wilderness area" in the wilds of West Texas where they slept on a cot in a cabin built on a cement slab with mosquito netting in the windows instead of glass. They learned how to cope using hand crank can openers instead of electric models and how to purify tap water using a Mr. Coffee machine. They were forced to endure the hardship of reading under a bare bulb, and there was no TV.
That gruesome ordeal reduced the organization to the point of zero credibility, and the girls quit shortly thereafter.
Using a manual can opener is a hardship? That's the only kind I use! Just wait until my 28 year old son (who has possibly never used an electric can opener) finds out just how primitively we raised him. Why, we're almost Amish!
when I had a bad troop leader, my Mom didn’t blame “Girl Scouts” and let me quit and bad-mouth the organization
All leaders are volunteers, you know. Some are good, some are not.
My Mom stepped up and started a new troop
Now 50 years later I am doing the same
LOL! It sounds like fish camp. We pay good money for that experience. ;)