I'm against scouting for no other reason than that I think it's illogical to have endless meetings and ceremonies to gain badges instead of actually teaching urban kids how to survive comfortably in the wild, learn to use common codes, read animals tracks, signs, scat, etc.

In Haiti, we missionary kids poured over the one Boy Scouts handbook, memorizing all the codes, from Morse to Braille, knots, shelter building, etc. identifying tracks (although the US animals in the track pictures don't exist in Haiti), making and using bows and arrows, practicing throwing knives at targets, etc, thinking that Scouts existed to train kids in Native American skills, as in "Indian Scout."
We also had a National Geographic book on Native American Indians and copied stuff from there as well.

But when I was in the US at the age of nine, to my horror I was put in the Brownies, where we had to wear an ugly uniform (with a SKIRT??) and everyone sat around the living room, ate cookies, and planned the next meeting where we also would do nothing. It was so boring I never returned, but I heard that the regular Boy Scouts weren't much better.

Later on, I read Tom Brown's book, "The Tracker," and how he trained his own Boy Scouts troop in tracking and survival skills he'd learned from his Apache teacher, "Tracking Wolf," so the kids could do all that stuff.