[hsmomx3]

Way back when I was in Girl Scouts, we had our meetings at our leader's home. Why can't the Boy Scouts tell the schools to stuff it and they can have their meetings elswhere?

[KC Burke]

Scout "Patrols" and Cub "Dens", still meet in homes. The larger units, Troops and Packs meet in multi purpose type facilities as arranged by the Sponsoring Organization of the individual Scout unit.

Like other public groups, under utilized public facilities, like schools in the evenings, are often selected at little or no cost.

Many Scout Troops, less centered on a small neighborhood like a Cub Pack, meet in Churches.

The units in question range in size from 20 to 300 plus parents and siblings that may attend or help out.

[itgirl]

The Boy Scouts are organized a bit differently from the Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts meet only as small troops of less than 20 girls. Service units have many more girls than that, but they rarely meet. Boy Scouts, on the other hand, meet as packs and troops consisting of 30 boys or more. My son's pack currently has 40 boys and will likely swell to 60 when school starts in the fall. Have you ever tried conducting a meeting of 60 boys in your house?

[Eva]

We met in a church basement. Most the girls were from other churches, it had nothing to do with the church. The church just allowed the girl scouts to use the room (and the piano).