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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another happy Burgundy Farm camper here. My daughter is 4 and has seemed to have the best time. When I asked her if there were any special friends she wanted to try to have playdates with in the fall, she named her head counselor! They have been very warm and caring all summer long.[/quote]

You got lucky. My 5 year old had a horrible experience at Burgundy. My sweet quiet exceptionally well behaved boy left behind his water bottle in the classroom as the counselors rushed him out the door to dump them at car line. It was 100 degrees, his face red, and sweaty, he asked the girl assigned to his group of he could get his bottle. She told him to shut up and just get it the next day. One morning he asked me to please remember to pack a fork in his lunch because he didn't like eating pasta salad with his hands. I said when have you ever eaten with your hands? He goes, yesterday you didn't put a fork in and I asked my counselor if she could please get me a fork, she told me to be quiet, there's no forks here, and eat with my hands. I brought this up to another counselor, who profusely apologized and told me that is absolutely not the case, they have plenty of disposable utensils for use by campers, but you need to walk over to another building to get them. [/quote]

I find this story very hard to believe.  We've been at Burgundy Camp for four years,  Each class grouping has one lead counselor, who is usually an experienced teacher, and two Conselors in Training.  It would be very difficult for a counselor to say something like this to a child at lunch and not be overheard by other counsellors and kids.  Speaking like that to children is definitely not the norm at Burgundy. Any counselor who was known to speak like that to a child would be reprimanded.  Did you talk to Hugh or anyone when your child reported it?

I'm not saying that it couldn't have happened, but given our experience across multiple grades with multiple age groupings, the fact that my children --including the very sensitive one -- have never had anything but extremely positive, loving things to say about their counsellors suggests to me that your experience is an unusual one.  [/quote]

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