Comments on: Girl Scouts – Shrinking or Growing? http://www.boyandgirlscouts.com/girl-scout-reorg/girl-scouts-shrinking-or-growing/ Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts under one roof... with proper supervision, of course. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:37:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1-RC1 hourly 1 By: karen http://www.boyandgirlscouts.com/girl-scout-reorg/girl-scouts-shrinking-or-growing/comment-page-1/#comment-19033 karen Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:39:15 +0000 http://www.boyandgirlscouts.com/?p=6#comment-19033 I sat in a meeting about the new journeys requirements for the silver. We were actually given an example of a project where girls, 11 & 12 years old, could identify a high crime neighborhood and develop a program to reduce crime there. Say what?! (Guess we can throw the Girl Scout Safety Wise Manual away) The Silver & Gold Awards now have to be "sustainable". In Sept. of '09, sustainable meant just that, sustainable. Which meant no more one shot projects; we'd all be out building picnic tables like the boy scouts. By Jan. of 2010, the definition of sustainable had changed to "potential to be sustainable". Meaning, that if the girls wanted to lead a fun day for the silver award, they could meet the definition by leaving behind a written plan for what they did so that someone in the future could repeat it. Of course, it won't be girl scouts repeating it, because they would have to create their own program! And to stress the troop leaders further, the silver award can no longer be done together by the whole troop. No more than 4 girls can work on a silver project. So if you have large troop, guess what! Is this what you have been told in your area? I sat in a meeting about the new journeys requirements for the silver.
We were actually given an example of a project where girls, 11 & 12 years old, could identify a high crime neighborhood and develop a program to reduce crime there.
Say what?! (Guess we can throw the Girl Scout Safety Wise Manual away)

The Silver & Gold Awards now have to be “sustainable”. In Sept. of ‘09, sustainable meant just that, sustainable. Which meant no more one shot projects; we’d all be out building picnic tables like the boy scouts.
By Jan. of 2010, the definition of sustainable had changed to “potential to be sustainable”.
Meaning, that if the girls wanted to lead a fun day for the silver award, they could meet the definition by leaving behind a written plan for what they did so that someone in the future could repeat it. Of course, it won’t be girl scouts repeating it, because they would have to create their own program!
And to stress the troop leaders further, the silver award can no longer be done together by the whole troop. No more than 4 girls can work on a silver project. So if you have large troop, guess what!
Is this what you have been told in your area?

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