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[quote=Anonymous]I have twin boys.  One is the type who is usually the center of attention and a ring-leader.  He likely would have been one of the kids on camera in a more dominant role.  The other one is much more shy and more likely to have to been in the situation your daughter was in.  While I understand systemic issues, I don't think this is a good example of sexism especially not camp-wide.  You have one group of four children and do not know how this was allowed to happen and you don't know whether there were similar issues in other groups that had girls involved.  Like the response from the camp said, this sounds like a lack of sufficient adult supervision to guide the kids and to keep naturally strong personalities from overwhelming more reserved personalities.  And it also sounds like they just didn't pay enough attention to the content both in design and in editing.  In fact, I think the fact that they have additional footage of work your daughter did that they will send for you to review and keep, supports the concept that it wasn't a systemic exclusion.  Your daughter was not prevented from participating, but her work did unfortunately end up on the cutting room floor.  And in the future, they'll be more careful to make sure that the final product is more balanced for all kids.

I do like the camp's response.  They acknowledged that the problem was caused by a lack of adult supervision which they intend to remedy.  Likely they will institute some sort of training for the camp counselors (hopefully both for the adult staff and the young adult staff) for the next session to make them more aware of the issues and what to watch out for and to pay closer attention to all phases of the activity from design to editing to ensure everyone gets more fairly represented.[/quote]

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