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[quote=Anonymous][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".

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[b] I have no idea why![/b][/quote]

One of the benefits of going to camp is that you can come out of your pigeon hole.  If you go to a camp where most of your friends do not, no one knows you.  You have an opportunity to reinvent yourself.  If you're the geeky kid at school, at camp you have an opportunity to become the sports kid.  If you're the quiet shy type, you can try out being extroverted.  It a safe place to discover who you are becoming which may or may not be how your day to day friends that you've know since K perceive you.[/quote]

PP you quoted-that's what I kind of figured might be going on, but she didn't seem to act differently around them so I couldn't be sure- we weren't very close but she was so sweet. I think her "camp friends" obviously eventually became acquainted with her "home" friends- but the first few months, she seriously had a color coded agenda book to keep meeting places and groups apart it seemed (remember those! hello 90s!)[/quote]

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