(September 5, 2015 at 5:18 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:I never minded paperwork or taking classes. That's just in there as part of the overall, too much for a volunteer thing.(September 5, 2015 at 2:42 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Aren't girl scouts or any scouts, religiously based?
Perhaps this is something secular people should think of, adventure without bullshit.
No. The Girl Scouts are not religious. They are much better than the Boy Scouts. You can read about them on wikipedia. If you compare both groups just from reading on wikipedia, you should be able to see that the Girls Scouts are presently, and always have been, better than the Boy Scouts.
As for some of the trouble, the organization wants a safe environment for the girls (hence things like CPR requirements) and they want to stop people from stealing money from the sale of cookies (hence the paperwork and accounting for every penny). The simple fact is, if they did not have troublesome requirements, they would end up with other problems.
I DO mind half the Girl Scout year being focuses on sales. AND you cannot opt out. Well, you can, but if you do opt out of sales, you are disallowed from doing your own fundraising. You can only do your own fundraising if you ALSO sell cookies AND nuts. Sigh.
And the fact that 3 years ago, they removed almost all the badges, and installed and pushed these Journeys. The journey's are books with no flexibility, and more like book schoolwork than the hands on learning most people think of.
Girl Scouts is still a good organization, but since the new CEO took over in 2011, things have been going downhill fast.
“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