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Homeless Families Need Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts Need Homeless Families
Unless you’ve spent time in a homeless shelter, you wouldn’t know what soul-killing places they can be (despite best efforts of stellar shelter operators).
Unless you were a mother with children living in a homeless shelter (or in other homeless circumstances), you might not grasp the dark cloud that hangs over you, even on good days.
Unless you experienced homelessness as a kid, you might not appreciate the rare small and large joys that come your way from an unusual experience like Girl Scouts.
I’m trying to be kind and forgive Samuel G. Freedman’s harsh criticism of the new book, Troop 6000, by Nikita Stewart. It’s obvious that his knowledge of family homelessness is equal to his knowledge of Girl Scouts. That he felt the need to tear into Troop 6000 — the book, but also the the lives of women in Troop 6000 — is unfortunate. He underestimates the value of Girl Scouts in the lives of this amazing troop, kids and adults. And he lacks any sense of what it took to make this phenomenal milestone happen.
