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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do they staff camps during April spring breaks when college kids are at college? Miraculously, they do so with local workers and high school kids. Also, all regular childcare places like Kindercare, Sparkle, Chesterbrook, etc will provide daycare for all of the elementary kids. It would work fine. [/quote]

Lovely wishful thinking there. More families take at least part of spring break off since it's just a week vs. multiple months as in summer. That dampens the need for camps that week. Also the type of camp people may be ok with for just a few days or at most a week may not be the same type of spot they'd be comfortable using for weeks on end. Regular childcare places do not magically have enough staffing to cover a huge surge of ES kids and those kids will also be super bored if they are over 1st grade since daycares are not really set up for them on a weeks long basis.

Unless college schedules shift to match we do NOT have enough workers to cover child care on a schedule that doesn't concentrate most of the time off over an extended summer break (aligning mostly with college break). [/quote]

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