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To start off the new year, here's a new discussion topic.

In our last council meeting, we decided to encourage co-ed events
between scout and cub scout units. One of the concrete effects
is that this year, the three-day campout on Whitsuntide (May 29-31)
will also host a cub scout pack in their own tent(s).

I was amazed at how that proposal passed so smoothly, as just six
months ago, the voices from the troop leaders were rather critical
on the cub and camping subject. One of the major arguments at that
time was that campouts were one of the key events in the scouting
program and that it wouldn't come as a surprise anymore to those
newcomers who had campouts in their cub scout years.

What is your personal opinion on that issue?

Should cubs participate in co-ed campouts? 
If yes, under what conditions?
And alternatively, should packs (or dens with older cubs) have a 
campout on their own (as opposed to co-ed campouts with scouts)?


-- Danny Schwendener         macman@bernina.ethz.ch
   Wolfsmeute Nidau/Glockenhof, Sihlstr. 33, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
   m.h.c. Troop 14, San Francisco