Brief history of the decline:
2013: Boy Scouts ends ban on gay scouts
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/boy-scouts-to-admit-openly-gay-youths-as-members.html
Membership 3.03 million
https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/annualreport/2013/324-168_WB.pdf
2015: lets in gay leaders
https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/us/boy-scouts-gay-leaders-feat/index.html
Membership at 2.74 million
https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/annualreport/2015/2015_Annual_Report.pdf
2016: libs report Boy Scouts doing great after ending gay ban
https://apnews.com/article/3de59dad2ba74b8f98bd3bc9b93c9bfc
Membership at 2.714 million
https://scoutingwire.org/annual-report-2016/
2017: announces will let in girls, will allow them to obtain Eagle badge
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-will-admit-girls-allow-them-earn-eagle-scout-n809836
Membership at 2.659 million
2018: changes name to scouts BSA because it now lets in girls. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607678097/boy-scouts-changing-name-to-scouts-bsa-as-girls-welcomed-into-program
Membership at 2.499
https://ar2018.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BSA-2018-AnnualReport_1.pdf
2019: girls officially start being accepted as Boy Scouts
Membership at 1.97 million
2020: membership at 1.12 million
"The Boy Scouts of America said this week that the organization would create a “diversity and inclusion” merit badge and make earning it a requirement of becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest scouting rank." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/boy-scouts-diversity-inclusion-eagle.html
2021: membership at 762,000
Sad to see. I earned the rank of Eagle in 2011 and it was an awesome program that really did alot for me. But I have no sympathy... this is what "wokeness" gets them. My son won't be a part of the organization for the 2020 merit badge requirement alone.
It's a feature not a bug. Infiltrate and destroy. Same for manufacturing, industry, and schools (a huge percentage of kids want to go into the video game industry while the lack of high-voltage electricians and other skilled blue-collar workers (Everyone go to college!) limits what can be accomplished.) Same for government and military. Same for economy, health (low-fat diets, pasteurized milk, veganism, flu shots), and morality (Teen Vogue, etc.) Cancer cures bought and shelved. Good companies, pillars of a community, bought for the purpose of imploding them. It's undermining, sabotage, controlled demolition, disenabling, poisoning, twisting, demoralizing, mind-bending, corrupting, deliberate plug-pulling on what made a nation or previously wholesome youth organization, successful.
I bought a 5th edition Boy Scout handbook from the 50's, the boy scouts use to be such a patriotic group, now they have been ruined by communists. What a shame.
Get woke, go broke. Now do the Girl Scouts.
As an eagle scout, there's no way in hell I'm putting my sons in scouts, I can't believe how it imploded.
Didnt take long, did it. In 2013 I told everyone of course perverts want to be included in scouts. A good wholesome organization ruined.
it is just 'the scouts" now, girls and homos are all allowed to join. My sons were in the boy scouts when they were young, I was in the scouts when I was a boy. But I would not allow any kids to join that poofter club that was once the boy scouts.
I had always supported the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. NO MORE.
Both organizations were incredibly important for developing young children's leadership potential, self-reliance and team work. Both helped build self-esteem in children.
They don't anymore. That's gone.
They should sue the judge and the united states for allowing homos in.
Sheesh, losing 75% of your membership in less than 10 years.
Yea, I didn't know until recently that Mormons are a big % of Boy Scout membership. I guess a big part of the drop is probably them after they started letting in girls.
2018 -- "The Mormon Church has been the largest participant of the Boy Scouts in the United States, making up nearly 20 percent of all of the Boy Scouts’ 2.3 million youth members." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/09/mormon-church-breaks-all-ties-with-boy-scouts-ending-100-year-relationship/
Scouts was so awsome back in the day.breaks my heart to see it ruined.
The Left destroys everything it touches.
Pretty lame all the way around. I was a scout and earned my Eagle w/ Palms in the 90’s, and it was an awesome experience. It seems pretty unrecognizable now.
It has a lot of things going against it for enrollment:
Covid- My neighbors host scout meetings and I always see that everyone is socially distant and wearing masks. These neighbors are based and awake, so that tells me it's forced on them by their organization (or at least the local constituents).
Boy Scouts/ Girl Scouts- what's the difference any more? Girls can join Boy Scouts so that's a little odd for some.
3 Like most organizations with kids, pedophiles infiltrated and we've all read the stories about that problem.
I suppose the option would be to get some like minded parents, some of the materials and to recreate the spirit of the group.
The books will still contain the survival methods and be valid, just the motivation and trust needs to be rebuilt.
When I was young some of the best times were scout camps where we would go to some wooded area on the far side of a lake from civilization and build the camp and take it all down like we were never there at the end.
A message from the Great Scoutmaster:
The Wages of Sin is Death.
That is all.