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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The camp is under new ownership this year and as far as we are concerned it has been an extremely bumpy road. I have had two kids go there for over 7 years. I have given the new owners the benefit of the doubt but things have drastically changed there (dress codes for girls, religious undertones, etc.). The biggest one I don't like is that they no longer allow your child to send you bunk notes, so you have no way of receiving communications from your child. In the past it was helpful to hear from my child when they felt they were sick (twice my kids have developed serious ear infections at camp, probably from all the swimming, and the camp wasn't taking it seriously so after receiving bunk notes from my kids I called and they finally agreed to have them checked out and start on antibiotics). That is a real, really change. They told me "well once a week we do a letter writing session" but my kids, who were there for several weeks, told me that because they didn't have their own stamps and the camp wouldn't' give them any, they couldn't write me. I wasn't so concerned with not getting a letter from my kids, but only if they didn't feel like writing.

It's a real shame because it has been such a wonderful camp for my kids for so long.

My kids this summer took the shuttle. They tested everyone on a rapid and no one could load their stuff on the bus until 15 min after test taken and results. I wasn't too concerned with my own kids because we had all had covid in May so we felt we were in that 3 months post covid window. But if one kid on that shuttle unknowingly is contagious, well then it's spreading. But I imagine we all took that risk with sending our kids to camp anyway so we had to put that in our risk bucket.

Almost every year the camp has a cold going around. But this year campers couldn't send bunk notes to their parents. I do know of a few kids who were able to use counselors' phones and text or call their parents when on excursions where they can get a signal or on a few places at camp that work. These were the communications where the kids told their parents they didn't feel well and weren't getting better.

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Can you provide more context on the religious undertones?[/quote]

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