The troop my boy is in made the decision to be boy only but the troop one town over is mixed and they all camp in the same site with both boys and girls. So they don’t have to be gender separate.
Correct. The Dens / Units inside the Troop need to be gendered and have separate adults according to the rules, but actual applications of the rules vary in my experience.
My apologies, my information is out of date. Gendered splits only happen in 5th grade for cub scouts now.
This isn’t true either. There are rules about leaders of the same gender as the scouts present in certain situations, and separation in tents and bathroom/shower situations, but dens and patrols can be mixed gender
I’m wondering what exactly counts as a site for these purposes
I’ve been out of scouting for a long time now so I really don’t know how they’re working it
But I feel like different patrol areas at a lot of BSA summer camp sites probably offer more privacy and separation than there is at 2 adjacent sites at some non-bsa campgrounds.
I know at the summer camp my troop usually went to, you usually couldn’t really see or necessarily even hear what was going on in another patrol’s area, even though they were technically all part of the same site.
But at one state park we camped at a few times, we could pretty much see and hear everything that was going on in the adjacent group sites.
The troop my boy is in made the decision to be boy only but the troop one town over is mixed and they all camp in the same site with both boys and girls. So they don’t have to be gender separate.
Correct. The Dens / Units inside the Troop need to be gendered and have separate adults according to the rules, but actual applications of the rules vary in my experience.My apologies, my information is out of date. Gendered splits only happen in 5th grade for cub scouts now.
This isn’t true either. There are rules about leaders of the same gender as the scouts present in certain situations, and separation in tents and bathroom/shower situations, but dens and patrols can be mixed gender
They are supposed to be in separate sites, though many troops have always skirted rules in scouting
They are supposed to be in different tents with different bathing facilities. They can be in the same sites.
Is this a recent change? I got out about a year ago and up til then the training was clear that different sites were required
I’m wondering what exactly counts as a site for these purposes
I’ve been out of scouting for a long time now so I really don’t know how they’re working it
But I feel like different patrol areas at a lot of BSA summer camp sites probably offer more privacy and separation than there is at 2 adjacent sites at some non-bsa campgrounds.
I know at the summer camp my troop usually went to, you usually couldn’t really see or necessarily even hear what was going on in another patrol’s area, even though they were technically all part of the same site.
But at one state park we camped at a few times, we could pretty much see and hear everything that was going on in the adjacent group sites.