On the one hand your also saying its fine to have girls in scouting, yet at the same time reference the parents who send boys to single sex schools, and that scouting in your case seems to serve as a way for such boys to get socialisation with the opposite sex, in my case my parents could not afford to send me to a “private school” so perverse it was single sex ? and if single sex is suitable for schools in your imagination then why not also scouting ? I would state it is not the scouting movements major responsibility to provide closeted private school kids sent to a single sex school by nutty parents, with socialisation skills with girls, its being tackled the wrong way round ! ie if parents want their children to get some socialisation skills with the opposite sex, dont send you children to damn single sex schools ? after all scouting is perhaps 3 hours in the evening once a week, and is much less of an opportunity to get such socialisation skills than sending them to a mixed sex school in the first place ?!

for reference in this scenario I went to 12 schools 11 of them mixed sex, went through from cubs at the earliest possible joining age, through scouting but not venture scouts, or what the hell its all been rebranded to now, and was also an assistant cub leader myself for several years. And at no point would i have considered it part of scoutings responsibility to give boys social skills with girls, for me it was a welcome escape from all that.

you are welcome to your view, but I dont think your view is a personal choice you have made through deliberate thought and consideration, merely a viewpoint you have had forced upon you by being part of the organisation, and therefore ego wise have decided to approve of this decision, since you have no choice rather than take the tougher more ostricised and principled road of fighting it.

The compromise as you put it, may well have been guides, but in reality that is the organisation that was created to cater for them in exchange for them not being in scouting ? And until boys whether they take it up or not, have the same rights to join guides or brownies as well etc, its unfair discrimination stating that boys cant join guides, but girls can scouts, then there is an injustice occuring towards, a once boys only organisation for starters, which sticks in the throat, because the girls organisation has not been muddied in this way, ie if your going to denigrate scouting, with overly pc feminist akela ideals, then the least you can do in a just sense, is to denigrate the guides/brownies movement in a similar way.

If you were to analyse what proportion of boys joining cubs or scouts went to boys only single sex schools, I think you would find they would be in the extreme minority ? I for one will not be sending my children into either movement, regardless of how much in my day I thought they were a worthy or valuable experience, mainly because you wish to mess with the movements ethos, for your own Pc self perceptions, as there is never really any point maintaining any organisation that prostitutes its own values or eccentricitys, as such I hope in some ways scouting and guides dribble away to nought, that may also be the reality at some point in the future, brought on by the organisations, pointless decision making.