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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I literally cannot imagine there is a camp that lets campers take home anything they want from the lost and found on the last day without even notifying parents that this is their policy or that lost items will not be returned after the last day of camp.

I personally wouldn't send my kid to a camp like that. Sounds horribly disorganized and very unfair to anyone who forgot something on the last day. And more than a little dishonest, really.[/quote]

I agree with this, but I can also imagine that a younger counselor might say to kids, take whatever you want, without the camp knowing about it.  OP's son is eleven and probably not readily able to figure out when someone senior to him doesn't have authority to let him do something. If a counselor said it and a bunch of kids did it, he might very well think it was ok.  Or he might feel uneasy about it and do it anyway.

If so, this is a lesson in being responsible and making judgments about what you should/shouldn't do and when to listen to older kids and when to decide for yourself.

It may also be that OP's son has problems with truthfulness in other areas and there might really be an issue here.  But I think there's a reasonable explanation that's also possible.

Either way, it's easy for OP to find out, and I hope she updates us![/quote]

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