Disappointment

Sunil has really enjoyed Cub Scouts so far. Unfortunately his Den Leader's son hasn't. Once that child said he was done his father lost all interest in continuing the den. I can't say that I blame him, however we only had five boys to start with and two have dropped out, one transferred to another den, I never really knew the last family. That leaves us. The den leader tried to get the other den leaders to accept transfers but they never responded to his emails. I've tried emailing the one parent that I knew of one of the boys in a different den but didn't get a response. Now I've tried emailing the pack leadership and not gotten a response. The pack is so large that it is in the process of breaking in to two different packs. Apparently this is taking every one's time and attention. But the result will be that Sunil will not get do anything else with the scouts until September when he may no longer care.

This is more or less the way that Sheela's Girl Scouting experience ended too. Her troop disbanded at the end of the year. As it was most of the girls from her school were already in a troop so she was sent to a troop with kids from different schools. It sort of defeats the purpose of making school friends but I loved the kids and she made good friends. Unfortunately the parents all had trouble getting the kids to the meetings since they weren't after school and at school or even after work for that matter. When she tried to get reabsorbed in to the "after school, at school" troop it was still too full. None of their kids dropped out because it was easy to send the kids. All of the fallout was from those of us that had to deal with transportation. After fighting it for a month Sheela said she was over it and never mind.