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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously there is a large economic factor at play. I am from the Northeast and never went away to camp, and knew no one who did. No one in my universe had that kind of money.
I did work at a camp one summer while in college. 8 weeks. I was pretty horrified by some of the things I saw go on. At the same time, I did see a lot of fun, as other posters describe.
Not sure if I would let my son go if he expressed an interest, but I doubt it will come up. Even in the DC area, I think sleep-away camp is for a select few pockets.  Most of the region doesn't have the money to be sending their kids away to camp for 8, or even 4 weeks.
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Basically agree with everything said here. I only ever really heard of it being a thing that people do regularly once I got to college  (in NY) and the wealthier kids, generally from downstate, but not all, would talk about their "school friends" and their "camp friends".

[b]I do remember laughing at my old freshman roommate working feverishly hard to keep her 2 worlds apart when people she knew from both places were at college together now. It was a serious juggling act for her and I have no idea why![/b][/quote]

That is weird.  I always LOVED when my camp friends and home friends got together, and I loved meeting the home friends of my camp friends b/c I had heard stories about them all summer.  Ultimately I felt closer with my camp friends than my home friends, though.

I am one of those Jewish kids from NJ who went to sleepaway camp every summer for 8 weeks from the age of 8 on, and I would not trade that experience for ANYTHING.  My fear is that my kids aren't going to want to go to sleepaway camp b/c living around here their friends aren't going.  I certainly wouldn't force them to go but I think they would be missing out.  Then again, the camp I went to is over $10K for the summer now (!!!) so maybe I shouldn't encourage it all that much :)     [/quote]

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