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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad to hear they are overhauling things. Some people rave about concordia but my kid did the 4-week HS program a few years ago and did not have a great experience. Every language has a different 'village' so perhaps their language camp was an outlier (japanese)? The language instruction was ok but facilities/food was poor and my kid said many of the other students had some serious issues (mental health issues, family/identity challenges, etc). Lots of home-schooled kids and kids never away from home before, etc. The camps are also located in super remote areas of northern Minnestota - 4 hour drive north of minneapolis (closer to fargo, ND). This was during covid, so at the time, not many camp options. But if I did it again, would have them do a college program or an international host stay program. If my kid studied spanish, seems like there are likely many other options to consider. [/quote]

I'm the other parent of the Chinese camp attendee mentioned above.  Our kid had a good time and didn't mention issues with campers except for someone with food allergies.

My older son went to Amsterdam on a summer program and really disliked the other campers.  There was all kinds of inappropriate behavior and poor supervision which I only found about after the trip.

Basically, I feel that whenever you get into these high-priced fairly luxurious camps you are going to get snobs, kids with "behaviors", kids with diagnoses and mental health therapies, esoteric allergies, and homeschoolers.  These are part of the UMC realities now.  I don't know why that is the case, and I'm not particularly judgy about it.  It just seems to be the case.

The mental health form for my older son's study abroad was quite extensive.  I realize that's for legal reasons but it was eyeopening.[/quote]

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