Posted on 07/29/2014 6:07:41 AM PDT by artichokegrower
In the summer, some affluent kids shoot hoops at a $69 two-hour basketball session with the Harlem Globetrotters, ride Arabian horses for $525 a week or visit Costa Rica for a $3,500 two-week study of sea turtles.
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I'm deprived. Who do I sue?
I went to the Baptist church based summer camp when I was a child. I imagine it was pretty inexpensive, because I send my children to church-based summer camp for around 200 to 300 for the week. Also the church provides vouchers for those who can’t make it and a similar camp for children in foster care.
“Never went to camp. Worked on the farm in the summers.”
Same here. My parents shipped me to my uncle’s farm in eastern NC where I worked the corn fields and harvested tobacco. A big thrill in late summer was going with him in late summer to the tobacco auctions in Wilson.
In that it is almost August we are going to have to hurry if we are going to offer those 100,000 or so unaccompanied minor illegal alien children down at our southern border an opportunity for summer camp this year.
This time every year we were always getting ready to see if we’d get a second cutting on the hay fields, improving springs, fixing up the barns, sheds, tractors, etc. That was valuable, and summer camps are nice but can’t replace being required to solve the problems of daily life on your own.
They’ve uncovered a new crisis - summer camp inequality!
I remember school passed out brochures in May to give to our parents. They were to send us to work on tobacco farms in CT as I recall.
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