Can Boys Join Girl Scouts?

Last Updated on September 29, 2023 by Chase Reiner

No, boys cannot join Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts is an organization for girls and young women ages 5-18. The Girl Scouts’ mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

Girl Scout Law

I’m going to do my utmost to be equal and truthful, helpful and polite, considerate and affectionate, courageous and powerful, and strong. I have my own responsibility for what I am saying and doing. I have to respect myself and others, authority, allow wise use of capital, and make the world a better place. 

Girl Scouts Skills In Four Areas Of The “Girl Scout Leadership Experience”

Girls Scout teaches them the skills in four areas of the “Girl Scout Leadership Experience,” like Science, Engineering, Technology, and Math (STEM). The skills will be:

1. Outside outdoors

2. Skills for Life

3. Entrepreneurialism

Girl Scouts believe that learning by doing is essential. There are a few lectures, books, and online resources are available.

Girl Scout Mission

Girl Scouting produces girls who make the world a better place with character, courage, and confidence.

Girl Scout Promise.

To my credit, I will try:

1. To serve my country and God,

2. To help support individuals at all times,

3. To live according to the Girl Scout Law.

Girl Scouts Divides Its Program Into Six Age Levels.

1. Daisy (Kindergarten – 1st grade)

2. Brownie (2nd-3rd grade)

3. Junior (4th-5th grade)

4. Cadette (6th, 7th, 8th grade)

5. Senior (9th-10th grade)

6. Ambassador (11th-12th grade)

The curriculum itself was built around Girl Scout Journey, multi-step programs of teachers set out for leaders, like lesson plans, typically carried out in girls’ weekly meetings. The trips are in three areas:

1. It’s your World-Change It!

2. It’s Your Planet, Enjoy It! It inspires girls to make the world a better place and make new friends along the way.

3. It’s Your Story, tell it on environmental topics. 

It enables girls to explore themselves, build good values, find their hopes, dreams, and interests. Each journey has the girls working as a group along the way and helps them:

1. Learn some basic facts about a subject.

2. Identify a topic they would like to do something about it.

3. To make a difference, come up with an innovative idea.

4. Establish a team strategy to make the solution a reality.

5. Put into motion their strategy.

6. Please share with others what they have learned and have done.

Badges in Girl Scout

There are badges that girls will receive in a range of subjects that are unique according to their age level in Girl Scouts. These are first aid, hiking, camping, livestock, painting, home skills, etc.

Others are about different business etiquette sectors, digital photographers, geocache, cross-training, locavore, textile design, future funding, website designer, and many others. 

It makes girls decide what to do in Girl Scouts from an early age and eventually learn to schedule all their events and meetings. They use leaders mainly for guidance and transportation by the time they are in high school.

Participants According To The Levels

Many girls participate in soldiers Girl Scouts, consisting of around 15 girls (at Daisy level) to 30 or more girls (at the Senior and Ambassador level). Most troops have 2-3 representatives, but they have parents and other adults who occasionally come in and support them in different places with their expertise. 

Therefore it is not anticipated that a leader would be an expert in car repair, genealogy, and woodworking, but she can help the girls with specific experts.

In addition to the Girl Scout camp, as girls get older, there are travel opportunities available to girls 11 and older called Girl Scout Destinations. These are services, typically set up by councils in different parts of the world and abroad, which last from 10 days to 3 weeks and are requested by girls. Many are owned by corporations but have adults from Girl Scout as chaperones. 

Individual girls go on these trips and meet adult Girl Scouts representatives, and the girls are well escorted throughout the journey. Something is needed to be funded by the girl, councils, or grant funds to others, and all have relevant scholarships. 

From year to year, the destinations differ. Some of them in 2018 include winter dogsledding in Minnesota, Panama scuba & sea turtle adventure, Mongolia horseback riding, Lake Erie Tall Ship Sail School, Alabama Space Academy, Camp Fury- a high-level adventure immersion experience in the lives of fire and police elite women.

Girl Scout Cookies

The cookies sold in the United States by the Girl Scouts are the Girl Scout Cookies. The cookies are sold to raise funds for supporting individual troops and Girl Scout Council. 

The table below depicts the data survey on a group of people about the Girl Scout cookies, and values represented in percentage to show how many people like each type of cookies in America. Thin Mints is the favorite cookie in America.

Types Of Girl Scout Cookies	Values In Percentage
Thin Mints	24
Caramel delights/ Samosas	16
Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs	10
Shortbread/Trefoils	7
Caramel Chocolate Chip	6
D0-si-dos/Peanut Butter Sandwich	5
Girl Scout S’mores	3
Lemon-Ups	3
Lemonades	3
Thanks-A-Lot	1
Toffee-tastic	1

Girl Scouts Offer Activism Lessons 

Girls are motivated to strive for what they want in the world to happen and make improvements. 

Though they do not support anyone’s field of activism, they facilitate involvement in general and help girls learn how to make connections and talk to government officials.

Difference Between Boy And Girl Scouts

Within the same pack/troop, Boy Scouts tend to have different age ranges. In a troop, girl scouts appear to have only 2-grade levels together. Girl Scouts concentrate on girls’ girls’ relationships, connect well with others, and use badges to help girls pursue a range of interests.

If Girls Are Allowed To Join Boys Scout, Then Why Not Boys?

The Boy Scouts are moving more towards being the Scouts and allowing conventional scouting tasks to be undertaken by any boy or girl. To sell cookies, the Girl Scouts are heading more into the child labor camp. The two are distinct organizations with varying objectives. 

The BSA has agreed to go to co-ed, but not GSUSA. If they decide, boys will be able to join Girl Scouts. Both parties are private organizations. As girl scouts double down, boy scouts are switching to be more accessible because of declining participation. 

According to them, when men have the privilege, then girls should also join. Boy Scouts do this because they have difficulty finding enough participants, not through the social obligation to admit girls. Gusa’s leader commented that girl scouts were founded for girls and have always been that way.

To conclude, in scouting, girls and boys should be kept apart. It will ensure the protection of both girls and boys and will respect the views of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and their families. While girls are awesome and can do whatever they think about, they should also not intervene and join America’s Boy Scouts. 

FAQs

References:

https://www.quora.com/My-son-is-12-years-old-and-wants-to-join-Girl-Scouts-Is-that-allowed
https://www.gswpa.org/en/discover/about/the-girl-scout-difference.html