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Definitely positive experiences overall. Most of the kids happen to be gifted.

Be willing to volunteer at least a little bit, because it is all volunteers, and if they burn out, the troop suffers.

See if you can visit different packs/troops and then decide which to join. This is expected.

Your child can just have fun, or they can put more into it (maybe with some direction from you) and get more out of it.

I think the best part of scouting is the focus that is put on service projects. And like DeeDee points out, they learn to do things for themselves, which is not often expected nowadays.