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Anonymous wrote:I am shopping for summer camps, and I see many decent camps that I like start at 9am & ends at noon or 3pm. Are those summer camps not designed for full time working parents, but targeted stay at home parents or families with nannies/carpool? Most of them have no before care/after care options. A few of them offer added before care or after care options, and it added up almost double of weekly camp tuition. What is considered reasonable range of weekly summer camp for full day (8am to 5pm/6pm)? A lot of them are in $500-$600 weekly range for a kindergartner, is it considered on expensive or reasonable price? We are in Montgomery county.

Summer camps generally are a replacement for "school hours." They figure that parents will continue whatever they did before for aftercare, etc. during hte school year.

But many working parents used after care provided at the school, so OP’s surprise that that is not offered by many camps makes perfect sense even with what you said.

Bar-T and Kids after Hours (both major providers of after care at schools during the school year) offer full day camps at schools throughout the county.

Yep, the camps run by places that normally do before/after care during the school year are usually reasonably priced and open early and close late. For instance, my kid has gone to camp run by MCCCA, the cost is $275 a week and hours are 7am to 630 pm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am shopping for summer camps, and I see many decent camps that I like start at 9am & ends at noon or 3pm. Are those summer camps not designed for full time working parents, but targeted stay at home parents or families with nannies/carpool? Most of them have no before care/after care options. A few of them offer added before care or after care options, and it added up almost double of weekly camp tuition. What is considered reasonable range of weekly summer camp for full day (8am to 5pm/6pm)? A lot of them are in $500-$600 weekly range for a kindergartner, is it considered on expensive or reasonable price? We are in Montgomery county.

Summer camps generally are a replacement for "school hours." They figure that parents will continue whatever they did before for aftercare, etc. during hte school year.

But many working parents used after care provided at the school, so OP’s surprise that that is not offered by many camps makes perfect sense even with what you said.

Bar-T and Kids after Hours (both major providers of after care at schools during the school year) offer full day camps at schools throughout the county.

Anonymous wrote:NP. Frustrated as well that I just looked at Montgomery County camp guide and Rockville City camp guide (camps through the government rec dept, not privately run camps) and almost none of them start before 9 am and almost none of them offer before care. I just don’t know how working parents can plan to get to work at 10ish (after commute) on a regular basis, at least I certainly cannot. So that leaves the more expensive privately-run camps.