It's true about the new CEO.
I actually joined a group called "Are you listening GSUSA?" It's a group that is PRO-girl scouts, but is trying to make changes from the bottom up. That is, members create petitions and circulate them and send them up to HQ.
The current petition focuses on de-emphasizing the Journey's, bringing back the discontinued badges OR creating new ones to replace them, and focusing more on the outdoor skill building again.
One good change GS's has made is to create STEM related skill badges, and I'm all for that! And no one is asking those be removed, just that they put the outdoors stuff back in.
I would like to see the new CEO step down. I think Girl Scouts needs to reverse some of their recent decisions.
Also, I've only quit as a troop leader, not the whole organization. I still hope things will change for the better, I just can't tank my health for other people's kids, no matter how much I love being a leader and working with kids. If I could have meetings without so many hassles, I wouldn't have quit.
Oh, and now we have NO CONTROL over our own troops. I forgot to mention, this is a brand new decision that will affect troops starting this season. There is this new toold coming out called "Troop Finder". It allows people to find and join a troop if that troop has less than 12 girls in it. If you want a smaller troop, you must request a special dispensation (like, if you have a disabled girl or something like that, you could request to be allowed to have a smaller troop). But ALL other troops will now be forced to accept girls and parent they have never met, and have 12 girls. 12 is a lot, I know. Mine was the largest troop in the area with 14 last year, and I had 10 the year before, and it's a LOT. The majority of leaders (that I know) prefer between 5 and 6 girls. Again, the organization dumping more work on the leaders without providing them with one more ounce of support.
I intend to Juliette (this means continue with my kid and me alone, since we are already registered!) and I think the few moms and girls in my troop may do that as well. I won't sell cookies, we'll just do the cool things like World Thinking day, Day Camp, and any badges she would like to earn.
I actually joined a group called "Are you listening GSUSA?" It's a group that is PRO-girl scouts, but is trying to make changes from the bottom up. That is, members create petitions and circulate them and send them up to HQ.
The current petition focuses on de-emphasizing the Journey's, bringing back the discontinued badges OR creating new ones to replace them, and focusing more on the outdoor skill building again.
One good change GS's has made is to create STEM related skill badges, and I'm all for that! And no one is asking those be removed, just that they put the outdoors stuff back in.
I would like to see the new CEO step down. I think Girl Scouts needs to reverse some of their recent decisions.
Also, I've only quit as a troop leader, not the whole organization. I still hope things will change for the better, I just can't tank my health for other people's kids, no matter how much I love being a leader and working with kids. If I could have meetings without so many hassles, I wouldn't have quit.
Oh, and now we have NO CONTROL over our own troops. I forgot to mention, this is a brand new decision that will affect troops starting this season. There is this new toold coming out called "Troop Finder". It allows people to find and join a troop if that troop has less than 12 girls in it. If you want a smaller troop, you must request a special dispensation (like, if you have a disabled girl or something like that, you could request to be allowed to have a smaller troop). But ALL other troops will now be forced to accept girls and parent they have never met, and have 12 girls. 12 is a lot, I know. Mine was the largest troop in the area with 14 last year, and I had 10 the year before, and it's a LOT. The majority of leaders (that I know) prefer between 5 and 6 girls. Again, the organization dumping more work on the leaders without providing them with one more ounce of support.
I intend to Juliette (this means continue with my kid and me alone, since we are already registered!) and I think the few moms and girls in my troop may do that as well. I won't sell cookies, we'll just do the cool things like World Thinking day, Day Camp, and any badges she would like to earn.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
