How summer camp became a nightmare for working parents
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Registering for summer camp is an increasingly complicated and expensive puzzle for working parents. Education expert Elliot Haspel argues that summer camp needs to be part of the national child care conversation.
It’s March, which means summer camp madness is upon us. As The New York Times national education correspondent Dana Goldstein tweeted recently, “when I was a kid you were lucky to go to one summer camp the whole summer. when did this change and in current bourgeois parenting you are supposed to switch camp every 2 weeks and signing up is a part time job.”