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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, once you get past camp-as-daycare, the market will not adapt for sleepaway and specialty non-local camps, which are what most families are looking from late elementary school onwards. So, yes, I will be able to get my kid a day or a week of quasi-daycare summer camp, but my kid will not be able to do CTY or Interlochen or just the normal YMCA sleepaway camp they've been attending for years if just DC totally changes its schedule.[/quote]

Classic comedy movies notwithstanding, the population of kids attending sleepaway camps has got to be under 15%. We shouldn't preserve this industry for a minority of families. [/quote]

Maybe the answer is to find ways to get more kids quality summer experiences like sleepaway camp.

I find it depressing that our vision of 1st world life is kids in daycare 5O/weeks per year until work begins, unless work is deferred by college.

Kids need some freedom and some unstructured time!  We're doomed if everyone's formative experience is non-stop structured and supervised care.  It is not a recipe for a creative and happy society.

And, yes, I get that most of us adults work 24/7, but I should hope that we want something different than fluorescent lights all day, every day for our kids.[/quote]

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