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[quote=Anonymous]I’ll start by saying I’m a pretty free range parent, generally. I’m actually super fine with the laid back, medium supervision vibe of DPR Camps, that I know other parents don’t care for. A little chaos and running around with a mixed age group of kids sounds great.

But swimming is different! The #1 cause of death for kids 1-5 is drowning. We’re very careful about this, and so far have only taken our kids (both under 5) to pools or other bodies of water ourselves. We wouldn’t even let our beloved nanny take them (though they got a lot of mileage out of the splash pads).

Well, our oldest is 4 and doing DPR camp for most of the summer, and I just found out they take a weekly trip to a pool. This makes me so nervous! A 1:4 or 1:5 staff ratio does not feel adequate for this! My kid cannot swim (he’s taken a few sessions of lessons, but no concrete skills yet).

I feel a little trapped. Is this safe? I did some googling and couldn’t find any instances of DPR camp drownings. I cannot take a day off work every week all summer to keep him home and at this stage finding an alternative arrangement seems impossible.

What would you do? Am I overreacting here? [/quote]

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