Anonymous
08/02/2021 22:56
Subject: Wwyd re counselor inappropriate comments?
I grew up with a TON of allergies (though not deadly). I always had to have special food and special brands of food, and could never eat the cake at parties, all that. In 7th grade, I got really sick - bronchitis, then pneumonia - and was out of school for three weeks. A rumor went around that I cracked, ate a chocolate chip cookie, and died. My english teacher started the rumor. I thought it was hilarious, and I dressed as a Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookie (which I couldn't eat) for Halloween. No big deal. I heard all kinds of things from people - none of it phased me.
Stand down. Let Allergy Kid complain to THEIR parents and let THEIR parents contact the camp if they want to. This is not your battle.
Stand down. Let Allergy Kid complain to THEIR parents and let THEIR parents contact the camp if they want to. This is not your battle.
Anonymous
08/02/2021 22:46
Subject: Wwyd re counselor inappropriate comments?
You’re not triggered? Ha!
Go back and read what you have written about a teenage camp counselor.
Go back and read what you have written about a teenage camp counselor.
Anonymous
08/02/2021 22:23
Subject: Wwyd re counselor inappropriate comments?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m in the minority, but I’d call the camp director ans say you heard that a couple selon joked about causing a potentially serious allergic reaction in a camper. This is unacceptable.
These kids are not 5, they are teenagers. Take a step back. If you really feel something needs to be said, teach the daughter to confront the counselor directly. Otherwise, move on.
Absolutely not. This needs to go to the top of the food chain. Food allergy is life threatening and it is a disability. Would you minimize this if it was the same teacher mocking an intellectually challenged kid, or one missing a limb, or one with a terrible facial disfigurement? Not so funny now, huh? And none of those conditions are life threatening.
If a counselor said “if you guys don’t stop singing baby shark I’m driving this bus off a cliff” I would not think it was a serious problem. It’s a joke. The fact it would be deadly is not really relevant. So you focusing in on the deadliness of *actually doing it* misses the point.
No. You miss the point. Life threatening allergies aren’t funny. Especially for the kid who can never eat somebody else’s class treats because of possible cross contamination, who has been reading ingredient labels since they can read, who has to forego or be incredibly careful about “outside” food, who has to carry an Epi Pen, and God forbid they forget it. We’re not supposed to make fun of looks, sexuality, and a thousand other things, but it’s OK to “joke” about deadly assault on a kid if you don’t do it? Suppose the counselor “joked” that he was going to drive the bus over a bunch of kids, or that he was going to bring a gun so they could play “most dangerous game” in the woods that night. That would be OK, as long as he didn’t actually do those things?
What the counselor did was outrageous, and absolutely indefensible.
You are clearly very triggered and I understand your stress. But a teenager needs to learn how to survive in society. Teaching both the victim and bystander how to react might be the best case scenario. Having a teenage counselor fired is overkill.
Sending a sadistic tone deaf putz out the door with a footprint on his butt would certainly educate him and serve as a fine example to the others.
And I’m not “triggered.” Or stressed. Just shocked that in this day and she anybody would call something like this a “joke.”
A footprint on his butt? Oh my goodness, how dare you make light of physically assaulting a camp counselor, who is probably a teen! I’m going to report you to Jeff and have you banned from the website! Do you see how dumb that sounds? Your reaction to the “joke” is equally as silly and over the top.