Summer Camp Roundup!
May. 21st, 2020 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutSummer camp is important.
(If you disagree, that is OK! I am not here to convince you. Please feel free to leave now. Bye!)
(1) Summer camp is practice to figure out what will work and what will not work in the fall. If you cannot make something work outdoors, in the sunshine, with a smaller number of kids, Woe Is You come fall.
(2) Summer camp is an important component of affordable child care. If it is not available, some important fraction of your workforce will have to provide that child care directly to their own kids and be not or at least less available to do other work in the economy. Also, a lot of .those children will wind up having far less effective, non-abusive supervision.
(3) Summer camp is an important component of maintaining and developing school readiness. Kids that are already regressing are not magically going to stop over the summer. The longer the period of non-structured time a kid experiences, the more difficult the transition back to structured time.
And yet, we are canceling summer camp! It is important, and here is a very partial list of canceled summer camp:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/05/13/summer-camps-are-closed-or-on-hold-leaving-families-scrambling
Mentions in here include a camp for the deaf, a camp for those with Type 1 diabetes, It also describes people planning to take FMLA to spend the summer with their kids who, without the structure of school (even school at time), are not going to be okay.
https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/05/arlington-county-summer-camps-canceled-due-to-covid-19-concerns/
3 counties in Maryland and 1 in Virginia are mentioned. I found it after I learned that Fairfax County was making the same choice.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fairfax-county-cancels-summer-camps-coronavirus/65-0d569789-1757-4614-8e59-6a3c4163c745
Connecticut LOOKED like it was going ahead with camps. But that may be a bit fluid!
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/governors-latest-executive-order-affects-camps-summer-school/2273509/
No resident camps. If you were not already running a camp, you do not get to start one now. And probably more to come.
Vermont is looking likely to go ahead (in part because I think camp is a major part of Vermont’s economy).
In Maine, York tried really hard and decided it was not gonna work:
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200512/york-parks-and-recreation-cancels-summer-camps
(If you disagree, that is OK! I am not here to convince you. Please feel free to leave now. Bye!)
(1) Summer camp is practice to figure out what will work and what will not work in the fall. If you cannot make something work outdoors, in the sunshine, with a smaller number of kids, Woe Is You come fall.
(2) Summer camp is an important component of affordable child care. If it is not available, some important fraction of your workforce will have to provide that child care directly to their own kids and be not or at least less available to do other work in the economy. Also, a lot of .those children will wind up having far less effective, non-abusive supervision.
(3) Summer camp is an important component of maintaining and developing school readiness. Kids that are already regressing are not magically going to stop over the summer. The longer the period of non-structured time a kid experiences, the more difficult the transition back to structured time.
And yet, we are canceling summer camp! It is important, and here is a very partial list of canceled summer camp:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/05/13/summer-camps-are-closed-or-on-hold-leaving-families-scrambling
Mentions in here include a camp for the deaf, a camp for those with Type 1 diabetes, It also describes people planning to take FMLA to spend the summer with their kids who, without the structure of school (even school at time), are not going to be okay.
https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/05/arlington-county-summer-camps-canceled-due-to-covid-19-concerns/
3 counties in Maryland and 1 in Virginia are mentioned. I found it after I learned that Fairfax County was making the same choice.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fairfax-county-cancels-summer-camps-coronavirus/65-0d569789-1757-4614-8e59-6a3c4163c745
Connecticut LOOKED like it was going ahead with camps. But that may be a bit fluid!
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/governors-latest-executive-order-affects-camps-summer-school/2273509/
No resident camps. If you were not already running a camp, you do not get to start one now. And probably more to come.
Vermont is looking likely to go ahead (in part because I think camp is a major part of Vermont’s economy).
In Maine, York tried really hard and decided it was not gonna work:
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200512/york-parks-and-recreation-cancels-summer-camps