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Thank you , Tom!
alum--the Boy Scout troops around here are very large. They tend to be based at churches with membership from many schools. They have so many regional and city activities! The Girl Scouts have smaller troops, mostly school-based, and they work on their own. You don't see troops banding together to work on joint projects.
About 12 years ago, I moved my Girl Scout troop from a Georgia council to an Alabama one--we could do that because we're so close to the state line. I much prefer the Alabama council..much less drama, a lot less grabbing for power.
AGDee, I hear you about the tagalongs but I think that was done for 2 reasons--the first being, of course, liability issues. The other was issues with bad behavior of younger siblings. Once I took my Brownie troop to a pet store and 4 girls' little brothers came along with their moms, who made no effort to control them. One kid climbed into the tarantula enclosure, one was playing with scorpions, one made a mess with bird seed, and I forget what the 4th did but the whole trip was a wreck. I've heard a ton of similar stories and some much worse. It seems as if bad behavior of tagalongs is the rule rather than the exception.
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