Summer Camp and Parenting Panics

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Jay Caspian Kang on summer camps’ promises of social improvement, and the reason that upper-middle-class families can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

In two weeks, Frankie, my seven-year-old daughter, will start her seasonal job of attending one summer camp after another. My wife and I both work, which means that, during summer break, we need Frankie to go somewhere else for six or seven hours a day. We would prefer this place to be safe and spiritually fulfilling and maybe even help her develop some fun skill or another. But we are also desperate buyers who can be sold any story about friendship, nature, or broadened horizons.

” Just as the bucolic camps of the nineteenth century were sold as a way to keep your child out of the immigrant ghettos, programs like TIP promised a way for upper-middle-class strivers to give their children an academic edge over their classmates.

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