Bad camp experience - beware

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing horseplay is being silly, talking when instruction are being given, maybe doing things like piling Legos in a funny way, that kind of totally mischief that is developmentally appropriate for young kids in the summer time.

I work FT so my kids do camps all summer long so I have seen it all. Without exception when I pick up my kid at camp I see at least 90% of the kids engaging in this type of behavior and no one bats an eye.

OP you have a right to be annoyed.

What are you sock-puppeting now? the OPs kid was KICKED out. If 90% of campers engaged in kick out behavior there'd be no campers left...

[Anonymous]

I think some counselors get unreasonably irritated by certain specific behaviors that may not necessarily be worse than others. Maybe OP's child had one of those. Did you see the other thread on eye-rolling? DD had a teacher who also freaked out about that but not other stuff. A kid could shove another kid and that was fine but if a kid rolled his eyes at her watch out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did they do? What do you mean by standard horseplay?

I'm on your side, op, I can't stand when places have poor leadership and then get angry when the kids don't behave, but the kids don't behave because of lack of organization and expectations and supervision. It happened to us in a sports class but nobody got kicked out. So I'm truly curious what your son did to merit getting kicked out.

This happened at Y camp in Arlington for us. I know . I know. We were not kicked out but after a bloody lip I called it over.
PS just found out about non Y affiliated man at pool with white beard, reindeer towel, talking to the kids about how he wished it was winter. Where were the counselors? Who knows.