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[quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader’s class just spent a week away at a nature camp with 5th graders from two other schools. The theee schools mix in cabins (ie 4-5 kids per school per cabin). The kids who were with them at night / all day long to help out were 10th graders. (Teachers and naturalists were with them during the day but not in the cabins.)

Of the 80 kids in her grade, 10 didn’t go. I don’t know the reasons (but the public school made sure costs were covered for students who otherwise couldn’t afford to go). A few weeks ago I was talking to a group of girls and one said she really wanted to go but her mother wouldn’t let her. Again, I don’t know the reasons, but I said to my husband I could imagine concerns about being with that many people you don’t know in the cabins at night.

But the risk calculation to me was worth sending her. To the point of only one childhood; my DD has talked about this trip for years and came back glowing. She said it was one of the best weeks of her life. I would have been devastated if she’d been assaulted but the risk didn’t seem worth saying no.

In terms of sleepovers she’s only ever asked to go to two - one is her best friend (who has a twin brother) and they are all really close. The parents are both good friends of mine and the families spend a lot of time together. The other is when we visit my siblings and she wants to sleep over with cousins. Last year a girl in her class had a backyard camp out sleepover and I honestly didn’t give much thought to the risks but I would want to know families better for 1:1 sleepovers. So far she’s not interested in those beyond the one friend, though. [/quote]

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