Diverse sleepaway camps?

[Anonymous]

Any suggestions for a sleepaway camp that is at least ~20% non-white kids? Lots of camps seem to put diverse pictures on their website, but then the videos or full-camp photos you realize it's like >95% white kids. I'd prefer that my kid attend a camp where they won't be such an obvious racial outlier, as we've had bad experiences in the past in similarly homogenous environments.

[Anonymous]

Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.

[Anonymous]

Camp letts

[Anonymous]

There isn’t a lot of racial diversity when attending a 10,000 plus sleepaway camp. This shouldn’t surprise you. Ones with more diversity are the ones with generous scholarships available- but even then, it isn’t over 20%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t a lot of racial diversity when attending a 10,000 plus sleepaway camp. This shouldn’t surprise you. Ones with more diversity are the ones with generous scholarships available- but even then, it isn’t over 20%

I guess we're looking for something more like our general neighborhood... we're zoned for McLean HS, which is only 50% white, and the majority of the rest of the families are mid-to-upper SES (save for a few pockets) so not requiring scholarships. One of us parents grew up in California and seemed like more diversity was the norm so yes, a bit surprised at how homogenous some of these camp profiles seem to be.

Anonymous wrote:Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.

Good suggestion, but we're at a small private and don't know many families with kids a few years older who would have sleepaway camp experience that we could draw upon.

[Anonymous]

Camp Letts has more diversity than any other I’ve encountered. Definitely 20% non-white. Because it’s on the less expensive side, it tends to be MC/UMC fee paying diversity rather than LMC scholarship diversity.

[Anonymous]

Camp Wamava.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t a lot of racial diversity when attending a 10,000 plus sleepaway camp. This shouldn’t surprise you. Ones with more diversity are the ones with generous scholarships available- but even then, it isn’t over 20%

I guess we're looking for something more like our general neighborhood... we're zoned for McLean HS, which is only 50% white, and the majority of the rest of the families are mid-to-upper SES (save for a few pockets) so not requiring scholarships. One of us parents grew up in California and seemed like more diversity was the norm so yes, a bit surprised at how homogenous some of these camp profiles seem to be.

Anonymous wrote:Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.

Good suggestion, but we're at a small private and don't know many families with kids a few years older who would have sleepaway camp experience that we could draw upon.

So you want rich non-white kids. Just say that. It’s helps narrow it down.

[Anonymous]

If you have a daughter, check out Camp Farwell in Vermont. Not perfect, but they make a serious effort to include a diverse group of campers. Our daughter loved it. https://farwell.com/

[Anonymous]

Why are you looking for diversity? Is your child diverse?

From non white friends in the area I have found sleep away camp isn’t popular and these are parents who can easily afford it. The reasons I have heard are generally vague and with the only specifics being they just don’t believe in sending their kid to stay with strangers for overnights and it wasn’t something they did growing up

[Anonymous]

We are POC and our kids go to Sandy hill. Fair amount of diversity but probably 10-15 percent, not 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t a lot of racial diversity when attending a 10,000 plus sleepaway camp. This shouldn’t surprise you. Ones with more diversity are the ones with generous scholarships available- but even then, it isn’t over 20%

I guess we're looking for something more like our general neighborhood... we're zoned for McLean HS, which is only 50% white, and the majority of the rest of the families are mid-to-upper SES (save for a few pockets) so not requiring scholarships. One of us parents grew up in California and seemed like more diversity was the norm so yes, a bit surprised at how homogenous some of these camp profiles seem to be.

Anonymous wrote:Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.

Good suggestion, but we're at a small private and don't know many families with kids a few years older who would have sleepaway camp experience that we could draw upon.

Firstly, you hit my pet peeve. "We" are not at a small private school. Presumably you are an adult and no longer going to school. Your kids go to school. Secondly, and more to the point, you are thinking too narrowly - you don't need kids from your kids' school to mine camp info from. It's sleep away camp - they can get there from ANYWHERE. Thirdly, maybe reach out to Jack & Jill - I bet they could give you some camp advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t a lot of racial diversity when attending a 10,000 plus sleepaway camp. This shouldn’t surprise you. Ones with more diversity are the ones with generous scholarships available- but even then, it isn’t over 20%

I guess we're looking for something more like our general neighborhood... we're zoned for McLean HS, which is only 50% white, and the majority of the rest of the families are mid-to-upper SES (save for a few pockets) so not requiring scholarships. One of us parents grew up in California and seemed like more diversity was the norm so yes, a bit surprised at how homogenous some of these camp profiles seem to be.

Anonymous wrote:Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.

Good suggestion, but we're at a small private and don't know many families with kids a few years older who would have sleepaway camp experience that we could draw upon.

Firstly, you hit my pet peeve. "We" are not at a small private school. Presumably you are an adult and no longer going to school. Your kids go to school. Secondly, and more to the point, you are thinking too narrowly - you don't need kids from your kids' school to mine camp info from. It's sleep away camp - they can get there from ANYWHERE. Thirdly, maybe reach out to Jack & Jill - I bet they could give you some camp advice.

Jack & Jill will not be able to give you that kind of information. It’s a membership organization and if you’re not member, you’re not going to have access to their resources. Plus, I don’t think they gather information on camps. Camp information is usually given by word of mouth, between mothers.

[Anonymous]

100% Camp Letts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There isn’t a lot of racial diversity when attending a 10,000 plus sleepaway camp. This shouldn’t surprise you. Ones with more diversity are the ones with generous scholarships available- but even then, it isn’t over 20%

I guess we're looking for something more like our general neighborhood... we're zoned for McLean HS, which is only 50% white, and the majority of the rest of the families are mid-to-upper SES (save for a few pockets) so not requiring scholarships. One of us parents grew up in California and seemed like more diversity was the norm so yes, a bit surprised at how homogenous some of these camp profiles seem to be.

Anonymous wrote:Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.

Good suggestion, but we're at a small private and don't know many families with kids a few years older who would have sleepaway camp experience that we could draw upon.

Firstly, you hit my pet peeve. "We" are not at a small private school. Presumably you are an adult and no longer going to school. Your kids go to school. Secondly, and more to the point, you are thinking too narrowly - you don't need kids from your kids' school to mine camp info from. It's sleep away camp - they can get there from ANYWHERE. Thirdly, maybe reach out to Jack & Jill - I bet they could give you some camp advice.

If you're going to nitpick about language, firstly and secondly are not words. It's just first and second. That's *my* pet peeve.