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Choose the Right Summer Opportunities for Your Child – Tip #4

Top 10 topics to discuss when choosing the right summer opportunity for your child continues with tip# 4 (staff)

Choosing the right summer opportunity for your child is a process. In my opinion, perhaps the most important distinction between programs is the staff.

Who are you entrusting with your most precious possession? As Peg Smith the President of the National American Camp Association often says, “Who will care when I’m not there?”

Topic Tip #4

Staff Composition- Who is caring for my child? Ask about; age, experience, pre-season and on-going staff training, child abuse training, background checks, the interview process, retention rates, and camper-staff ratios.

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smellyp@nts May 22, 2013 at 05:34 pm
"what's not broken." AOL has said loud and clear Patch ain't profitable yet. but it ain'tRead More broken because you and one other commenter liked the old graphic design! oowee! LMAO!!
deena May 21, 2013 at 12:30 pm
I don't like the new layout either. I can't find anything, and most of the "comments"Read More have been deleted.
Mel May 21, 2013 at 10:14 am
I agree. Yet another case of don't fix what's not broken...
kmr303 May 18, 2013 at 11:38 am
First of all, I don't understand why teachers are paying for anything out of pocket when the supplyRead More lists that parents receive at the end of the summer are as long as their arms. Secondly, SOCIETY lets the kids down?!?!? I think the school taxes in Yorktown should be sufficient so that the teachers don't have to pay any out-of-pocket expenses. SOCIETY does not let the kids down, it is those who are in control of the school tax monies who let the kids down. Perhaps the administrators should take salary cuts, or maybe we should even eliminate some of those administrative positions. No teacher should have to pay for supplies out of pocket.