Boy Scouts Will Accept Girls, in Bid to ‘Shape the Next Generation of Leaders’

The Boy Scouts of America announced plans on Wednesday to broadly accept girls, marking a historic shift for the century-old organization and setting off a debate about where girls better learn how to be leaders.

The Boy Scouts, which has seen dwindling membership numbers in recent decades, said that its programs could nurture girls as well as boys, and that the switch would make life easier for busy parents, who might prefer to shuttle children to a single organization regardless of gender.

“I’ve seen nothing that develops leadership skills and discipline like this organization,” said Randall Stephenson, the group’s national board chairman. “It is time to make these outstanding leadership development programs available to girls.”

“We’ve had 105 years of supporting girls and a girl-only safe space,” said Lisa Margosian, chief customer officer for the Girl Scouts, who added that the organization felt “blindsided” by the announcement. “So much of a girl’s life is a life where she is in a coed environment, and we have so much research and data that suggests that girls really thrive in an environment where they can experiment, take risk and stretch themselves in the company of other girls.”
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The Boy Scouts has significantly loosened its membership requirements in recent years, but not without lengthy debates among its leaders and members. In January, the organization announced it would accept transgender members. In 2013, the group lifted a ban on openly gay members, and in 2015, it stopped barring gay Scout leaders.

The decision was celebrated by many women, but criticized by the Girl Scouts, which said that girls flourish in all-female groups.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/us/boy-scouts-girls.html

I also posted this in Christian Singles, we are well on our way to becoming homogenous indiscernible aliens. No labels, no differences, no common standards or role expectations ..

all just 'equal' and 'the same'

Myself I think this is bs if the girls want to do the same things the boys do then have Girl Scouts as well.... But keep it as it is...

And the same with Boy Scouts if they want to do what the girls do then incorporate those things within the Boy Scouts..

Will they start letting boys join the girl scouts then?

Why not just merge the two and call it "Scouts of America", or something like that?

I think BSA dwindling membership is the main reason.
Boy scouts and girl scouts are completely separate
groups.

I agree! I support keeping the two separate. Just add incorporate some of the things they want that the other group has.

I don't see it as being about segregating genders, it's more about sisterhood and brotherhood.... nothing wrong with that.

It also has to do with what they are teaching these children at a young age in school's today. Gender crap! Maybe research gender teachings today.

Example: teaching students to us gender neutral pronouns. Programing?

I think this is an extension of the armed forces situation, they have both sexes on front line operations and as a post said a while ago they are excepting transgender.
So it's not going to take a rocket scientist to work out what will come next!

"Gender Neutral Scout Cookies"...
now that doesn't sound very appetizing...

On the good side, they can have some new badges!

All I can say is there going to be a lot of Boy Scouts pitching tents..
Lol.. I know a little creepy but it was an easy joke.. sometimes I have to take the easy ones

The well endowed tents may be adorned with curtains now...

That is insane! There is nothing wrong with keeping them separate. It's not like it is 24/7. Boys need some boy time. Girls need some girl time.

.. maybe even chandeliers hanging from the ceiling...lol... oh can we hang artwork on the walls... maybe even get a big screen TV

Exactly!

Both are separate private organizations, they do as they please.

True! Although that's not going to stop people from having an opinion, or protesting.

I wonder how long it will be, once girls have joined, before the parents of those girls, or the girls themselves, will insist on renaming the Boy Scouts of America?

Talk to who's in charge of all the teachers and teaching around the world. Everyone on the same page around the world (globalization) what a wonderful thought everyone lovin on everyone. Sorry but I see that as a far stretch but hey I'll probably never see it anyway. Even if the dream does come true. yes we have no banana's today.

As a parent, I wouldn't let my kid do it to begin with. They act like they don't have anything for girls. Heck....I was a Brownie and Girl Scout and that has been around for a while. I was living in the Philippines whrn I was in the Brownies lol