BSA Troop 24
Community SubscriberTroop 24 is a Scouts BSA Troop (formerly "Boy Scouts") that has been serving the Berkeley community for over 100 years!
We are a very active Troop; we go on awesome campouts, hikes, service projects and other outings each month.
Troop 24 meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30, along with our sister troop, Troop 42.
Please visit our website or email us for more info and be sure to take a peek at our latest adventures on Facebook.
Have your son join the scouts. They go camping all the time. Troop 24 in Berkeley
Archived Q&A and Reviews
Feb 2011
RE: Boy Scouts for son with two moms?
Excellent question! When my son was 3 years old my partner and I met a gay scoutmaster at a dinner party. We had a great debate about the trade- offs of membership in a discriminatory organization, and I pushed pretty hard. It's a classic queer dilemma: How do you judge an organization - by the character of the local branch in which you participate or by the big picture national platform? One by one, my family members left the Presbyterian Church over this. But is being a scout the same? By the end of the dinner party, the scoutmaster had changed our minds and we began the count down to age 11 - when our son could become a Boy Scout. That day came last year, and it's been fantastic for everyone.
Our troop (T-24) welcomed us warmly, and my son loves all the activities. What's not to love about camping/fishing/orienteering /hiking/snowboarding, (not to mention earning that First Aid Merit Badge and doing frequent community service projects)? It's a curriculum for life.
At the same time, it is sobering for my son to realize that this beloved organization's official rules would exclude his favorite adult from being a scout or adult leader because he is gay. This is a much closer view of discrimination than he has ever had before. This conflict has launched great conversations about exclusion and bigotry - always ending up with the realization that what counts isn't what you profess your values to be - it's how you demonstrate those values. By that analysis, we have no second thoughts about being a scouting family. Good luck with the decision. margaret
Oct 2009
RE: How to find a Boy Scout troop for an 11-year-old
We had a wonderful time with Troop 24. It is a ''Berkeley'' troop, but plenty close enough to Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito to draw from those areas. They meet at St. Mary Magdalene in North Berkeley. Although it is not a ''Catholic'' troop, the church was kind enough to let us use their space. It is a very progressive, open and friendly group, with a full program of terrific activities. They have a website: www.troop24berkeley.org anonymous
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