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Originally Posted by pearlbubbles
On the cost note, camps are insane! I went to Girl Scout camp as a child and it was pricy, but I died a little inside when I found out my camp cost as much as a semester of college tuition for one session (and that doesn't include the trips either)!
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I was a counselor this summer on a Pacific Northwest trip through my old camp. Five weeks of living in the woods for $5250. Then they recommend $450 in spending money. I would guess that most parents dropped another grand on gear (most of the kids were WAY over-outfitted), so 7G's for most parents.
That said, I would guess that many kids will remember the trip as one of the best experiences of their lives. They are freshmen in high school, and they way they changed in five weeks, well, if I planned to have kids one day, I would do what I could to send them, too.
(though I would send them with a couple of company-logo water bottles and a $7 poncho, not this camelback and North Face nonsense)