Can anyone recommend a dome tent for Scout troops?

You might want to try the Wenzel Alpine Blue and Gold WalMart has them for about $45 each. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Wenzel-Alpine-8.5-x-8-Tent-Blue-and-Gold/13228636 I just bought one of these last week and used it for our Leave No Trace Train the Trainer camp out last weekend and it was easy to set up and take down (only two poles) and quite roomy.

?? My first concern is that you are breaking these poles this quickly. I'm *still* using 4 tents that my Troop bought 35 years ago when I was a youth, and which ended up with our family because my father was the last Scoutmaster of the troop. These tents were used at *least* 6 times per year - and in a few cases, were probably used closer to 20 or even 25 times in a single year. I currently use them quite a bit less (perhaps twice a year) mainly because I use Hennessy Hammocks for most of my 'regular' camping, and toss one or two tents into my vehicle for camps where car-camping may be needed, or where I think we may need storage tents for gear. The last Scoutmaster of the troop I am currently with (R.I.P. Mr Sam) had bought 8 dome-tents that were on a close-out special at Walmart about 10 years ago. Those tents lost an average of one tent-pole to breakage (per tent) each year. We repaired, scavanged, and combined for over 5 years. And it was only when we couldn't salvage any more (and we were starting to use un-matching tents to bolter our needs) that we picked up about a dozen used Philmont (A-frame) tents. Troop still uses these, though some parents have finally realized that if they want new tents, they either have to pony up the cash, or they need to get their boys to get out and do some fund-raising. Whatever tents you get - I recommend you put a quartemaster (adult) and quartermaster aide (youth) in charge of them - and enforce troop policies about tent damage, poles being damaged due to horseplay, and 'lost' tent-pegs. (I make my own tent-pegs out of heavy-duty wire 'found' shortly after certain political events.... as good as any commercial pegs I've seen so far, and better than almost any of the plastic pegs sold at some of the department stores. I've ''loaned'' out nearly 50 of these tent-pegs - - depleting my stock out of my own tents and gear - and seen as much as 1/2 and as little as 0% returned. My new policy - - I ''sell'' tent-pegs at $1 @. If I get my pegs back, the boy(s) that have borrowed them get their $ back. If I don't, the troop gets a donation toward the gear-fund. Boys have become **much** better at locating ''lost'' pegs.)