eh, i'll throw in my two words worth, we have down here scouts (for boys and girls) and girl guides (now for boys and girls) Hell, scouts australia has been both sexes for years now, the organisation is experiencing a decrease in number due to the lack of avaliable leaders and the rising price of insurance. People tend to drop out in high school before joining venturers (like myself) and well before they can join that great drinking order known as rovers.
Fact of the matter is, the older scouts get the less you want to do it, there are joeys, cubs, scouts, venturers, rovers and leaders. Takes you from six to god knows where. But all the values are taught early on, the ones from the origional works of baden powell and rudyard kipling. Later on the focus is more on skills, down here it works fairly well, but then again we flip the finger at scouting international.
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Date: 2005-03-31 11:03 am (UTC)Hell, scouts australia has been both sexes for years now, the organisation is experiencing a decrease in number due to the lack of avaliable leaders and the rising price of insurance. People tend to drop out in high school before joining venturers (like myself) and well before they can join that great drinking order known as rovers.
Fact of the matter is, the older scouts get the less you want to do it, there are joeys, cubs, scouts, venturers, rovers and leaders. Takes you from six to god knows where. But all the values are taught early on, the ones from the origional works of baden powell and rudyard kipling. Later on the focus is more on skills, down here it works fairly well, but then again we flip the finger at scouting international.