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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked at camps as a college student, and then worked for a few years on the front office as year-round staff.

This is not normal. Yes, long hours are the norm, but having someone serve as both maintenance staff AND cabin stuff is highly unusual. I've worked at six camps and never saw that.

Typically, cabin staff would have some "down time" during the day. They might be with the kids physically, but they are just supervising art barn time and the art staff is in charge, or hanging out at the sidelines while the sports staff runs games.

But someone doing maintenance is literally working all day, and then being in charge of kids? That's highly unusual for the same reason we would not make water safety staff (lifeguards) work the overnight cabin shift.

With that said, I doubt the camp chose this. Summer camps are heavily reliant on overseas labor, usually college students or young adults who come from all over the world to work. With travel bans, and uncertainty about navigating US Customs, and parents advising their kids not to go to the US, those numbers are WAY WAY down.

So the camp is stuck without the correct ratios, and forcing folks to fill in.

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That may be, but the problem will only get worse as OP’s kid quits, then another, then another.   OP’s kid isn’t responsible for keeping the camp running (or for policy decisions make elsewhere).[/quote]

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