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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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%[/quote]

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.

[quote=Anonymous]Ask your kids friends who are non-white what sleep away camps they go to.[/quote]
 
Good suggestion, but [b]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[/b].[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Of course they’re words. They’re adverbs. Wtf? <———- not a word, but I bet you know what it means. :)[/quote]

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