An update on Camp Menotomy & other issues...

[thinkxingu]

Originally Posted by Major

I think the decline of camps is more of a demand issue rather than a supply issue. Kids today have no interest in anything that is social. Our firm hires young people and they have no interest in socializing, whether with fellow employees or clients. I would have champed at the bit to go with a partner and a client to a Celtics or Bruins game or to go golfing with a client. Kids have no interest in these activities. The worst offenders are those in their thirties. I see some hope with the real youngsters, early- to mid-twenties. They seem to enjoy coming to the office.

And then there are parents. It's hard to helicopter your kid when he or she is away at a camp. I guess the cost factors in too, but camps have always been expensive for low income to lower income families.

Either way, it seems that the days of camps is a bygone era together with cottage colonies, lakeside cottages and candlepin bowling.

I don't this is at all accurate. My experience—as a Scouting leader (and parent to recent Eagle Scout recipient ) and high-end summer school teacher/administrator (supplemental, not remedial)—is that there are simply too many options to choose from these days.

When I started teaching summer school, there were a couple other alternatives in the area. Now, almost every school offers a summer program and there are multiple athletic camps, gaming and programming camps, Lego and design camps, etc.

When I was a kid, I literally didn't know anyone else going to a single, never mind multi, week camp.

Add to that school athletics, band camps, etc. and I think—not unlike it is with old vacation resorts floundering—it's about market saturation.

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