Sounds like someone thought they’d make a quick buck off taking some kids out into the woods and play camping, but got overwhelmed when they realized they actually had to feed and entertain them.
I went to a camp that basically looks exactly like this but it was actually clean and had great memories. It costed $75 for 3 full days. These kids got scammed.
Precisely, check my comment. I used to do week long holidays with sea cadets for £125.00!!! It’s easy if you know what you’re doing, have the right staff, and you put every single child FIRST.🤷♀️
It’s usually win win situation. We all need a break sometimes, even kids from their parents. This pandemic has caused a lot of togetherness, which can be good and bad. 😋
@@suppaduppafuppa I'm in high end tourism. I deal with people that pay $40-50k for a one way, private flight for a weekend getaway, then pay the same to get back. It's really quite terrible. That's life changing money for others, or a forgettable weekend for rich people because they do things like this so often
@@veganpotterthevegan I don't think anyone should go anywhere without protecting themselves by wearing a mask, or the shot, or both. We're adults here, I hope. So that goes without saying duh.
I went to the camp and they charged us 4,800 for 4 weeks I was there for three days and the refunded my mother 3,400 so they kept 1,400 for three days and it was horrific this segment doesn’t even cover half of the issues, kids where getting hit with bricks, pedophiles were creeping on campers and CITS, people were sneaking into cabins at night and touching campers (I was told this from girls in the cabins who experienced it), and they wouldn’t let literal sick kids who were throwing up and had raging fevers go home or call home let alone everyone else it was legit prison
I bet the long time staffers were let go at the beginning of the pandemic and the management (not a realizing or appreciating just how much work they did) thought anyone can do that type of labor.
The camp I work at is also understaffed. Not quite a mess as this one though. I bet they’d looked hard for more/ better employees. There’s a shortage in the workforce all over the country.
But did they at least give the parents a refund of some sort? A 50% refund at least? If not, I'd be looking into hiring a lawyer right quick to get my money back.
I spent seven months of my childhood at a summer camp with no phone or electronics (no electricity in the whole cabin) and it was awesome. That was always the highlight of my year. We'd send our parents a letter once a week, and our parents could email us and they'd print out their emails and give them to us at lunch. Aside from that, no contact with parents aside from emergencies or extreme homesickness. Our counselors didn't have any qualifications aside from first aid training, just good people who were hired by competent camp administration (most of them were camp alumni). By FAR the best months of my childhood. Parents in the modern age need to learn to let go. Tracking their kids and hovering over them does nothing for the kids. Most of the time it just sows distrust and makes the child feel less independent. Kids need time away from their parents, that's when a child can truly begin to flesh out their identity.
@@lllllllllllllllllllll1lll1 Well it's good u were lucky enough to have camp councilers who were responsible but not everyone is so lucky. I'm sorry but you can't trust anyone in this world and everyone who doesn't have anything happen to them is simply lucky.
@@winnie5873 unfortunately that wasn’t what was happening at this camp I went and it was horrific this segment doesn’t cover most of the biggest issues
I went to the camp and it was horrific this segment doesn’t even cover half of the issues, kids where getting hit with bricks, pedophiles were creeping on campers and CITS, people were sneaking into cabins at night and touching campers (I was told this from girls in the cabins who experienced it), and they wouldn’t let literal sick kids who were throwing up and had raging fevers go home or call home let alone everyone else it was legit prison
As someone who’s been a camp councillor over 5 years and trained in even just the basics (first aid, child safety, fire safety) I am absolutely appalled
it had alot to do with the pandemic, the food trucks didnt show up. the councelors we got every year from overseas could not come this year. dont speak without knowing both sides. the staff were always more than qualified when i went.
@CipherRage0909 ive been to this camp, the pandemic didnt allow councelors to come overseas so there was a shortage, the food trucks refused to show up due to the pandemic aswell.
That $3,400 price tag for summer camp is exorbitant! Why not just take your kid on a Hawaiian Vacation or Disneyworld instead of sending them to some run down camp. Sounds like the parents just want to get rid of their kids.
Even better, just send them to boarding school or something for the summer... If they can spend $3400 for just 2 weeks, I'm sure they can spend a bit more for boarding school to get rid of their kids for the summer.
I had a friend who’s parents would spend nearly $15,000 a summer for each of their kids to go to a summer camp for like 3 weeks. Meanwhile, I was a student ambassador and got to go to France, Italy, and Greece each for a month and it was “only” $5,500. Obviously that’s a lot but more than 2/3rd was fundraising. But the idea that these kids when to a camp like this for only 3 weeks for not THAT much more....wow. Like they literally could’ve gone to Europe as a family, a cruise, Hawaii, etc.
I went to a camp SPECIFIC for my medical health. I'm a type 1 Diabetic. I remember that it'd only cost $200 for a full week. It was amazing. Staff was always trained well and on the very last day we'd all get a water slide. $3000 dollars for a basic camp for that amount of time? Insane.
Or they love their children and want them to get a good summer camp experience so they pay more lol. Wouldn’t it make more sense to send them to a cheap camp if they really hate them what a dumb comment
@@naya6593 I’m American never went to summer camp except for Mets baseball camp in Queens learned baseball from players and coaches but never went to a “real “ summer camp
after all the stories of seemingly normal people turning out to be weirdos.....and yall still willing to send your kids to summer camp? save your $3400 and buy a couple walmart kayaks and camping gear and head to the lake for the weekend AS A FAMILY....
Because going to camp for two weeks is fun. You get to do thinks that a weekend camping trip just won't offer. Not to mention, not every parent is into camping or would even know how to pitch a tent or start a proper campfire. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of kids go to camp every year, without anything negative taking place. I remember going to camp in when I was a kid. It was the best 2 weeks of summer. Not because the camp was all that great. It was because I got away from my family for two blissful weeks.
@@metasprite5648 Nope, not abusive. I had very annoying siblings. Plus for a long time in my youth, my 3 siblings dad and stepmom, lived in a 4 room apartment. So I just loved the two weeks to myself. Family has always been very important to me. I now am blessed with 3 adult children, 5 grandchildren and a wife I have been married to for 35 years.
I can only imagine... If I wrote home from camp telling my mom I was not having fun. She would say "boy you better start having fun because you have no choice" $3,400???? Lol
@@stellak-m7746 It pops up as one of the recommended books on the AP English Literature test. Mildly traumatizing when you’re expecting a happy island trip.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. And I can say without hyperbole that this place is a million times worse than all of them put together!”
We used to take our 3 daughters camping & swimming for a very low cost and had a wonderful time together. Could have an amazing family holiday for the cost of this
I get your worry’s but there’s still a lot of great people out there. I haven’t given up on humanity. The media is making us all believe that everyone is evil, when in all reality, everyone I meet day to day is amazing. 🤷🏻♂️
I know right I know quite a few people who were molested by their counselors at summer camp and I also know a youth pastor that I grew up with in my town that just was busted for molesting his foster children. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ Mine can scream all she wants but I don't let her do nothing but oh well
@@smallartist4945 my kids do get out and explore. We actually made a game of it. We go places and see how many different things we can collect or go on bike rides
How does the pandemic have anything to do with undercooked food among other employee related issues? I think they're using that as a scapegoat for not properly staffing.
Agreed. The camp probably just hired bad staff/employees to save money. I guess they found out the hard way that good help is key to making things run smoothly.
$3400???? That’s $242.86 a DAY per KID!!! And that couldn’t afford the camp enough food? Or enough money to acquire proper counselors and kitchen staff??? I’m thinking from the camp director’s standpoint, the problem wasn’t having enough funds, it was a lack of knowing how to properly run a freakin’ summer camp!! Still though, as a parent I’d be demanding at LEAST a partial refund for spending that much money on a disaster like that
@hello is it me youre looking for I hope you’re joking about them making a live action version 😭 Total drama is a parody of the live action one Survivor lol
I had a scary feeling they were gonna say the camp had to shut down because a kid drowned in the lake when the counselors were not paying attention. Perhaps gettin' busy...
@Makhi Baldwin parents who aren’t able to watch their kids due to work? I work at a day camp and this is the case for me. The kids get breakfast, lunch, and snacks. They get to play outside mostly and swim indoors.
People who havent gotten sick and kids havent gotten sick its a large risk and not always smartest idea but also the virus isnt going to go away so unless youre at risk or a pansy , why not go to camp just practice basic hugiene and make sure the staff have bleach to clean and first aid on staff and a route to hospital. Stop fear mongering a virus
My older daughter has been wanting to do a summer camp. This makes me not want to do it. $3400 per student and they couldn't afford to give better quality? I don't care if there is a staffing issue or not, you do not hire people to run a kitchen who cannot cook or even clean and that director should be ashamed. Pay me a decent check and I would of ran that kitchen cooking all the food by myself and directing other staff to proper cleanliness.
The camp I went to as a kid and later as a counselor would have been closed down by the state immediately. Camp can be a wonderful experience that stays with a person their entire life. But parents have to be careful and be very choosey.
Imagine the camps that didn’t have rich parents who got the poor conditions broadcast on the news. I’d imagine this is one of the more capable businesses to even be able to provide a decent camp environment. The smaller, less expensive places wouldn’t be critiqued the same way and it wouldn’t have been such an impact, but still prolly face similar issues all over the country.
Did the camp that I went to was camp Timberlake it was a church type camp with a bunch of extracurricular activities had way more than this one did and I'm pretty sure my parents only paid like $300 for like a week and a half or two weeks I forget how long
I was a Camp Counselor when I was in college and we didn’t have much of a budget, but we still made it work. These issues sound like incompetency, rather than “challenges” from COVID. And that is a RIDICULOUS amount of money for two weeks. It was 600 for two weeks at the camp I worked at and that included all meals, a spot in the cabin, a sweater, a t shirt, a t shirt to tie dye, and craft supplies. These people got scammed…
I worked at a camp in 2021. We had campers doing line serving and cits had to be promoted to actual counselors. The amount laws the camp broke to stay running was astounding. It doesn’t surprise me that other camps experienced similar issues that year. The reason why it all happened was because there were no international staff allowed to fly in to work and most of these camps rely on them to take up to 50% of the roles on camp.
We went to a camp that looked exactly like this in Alabama for a school trip and the first activity we did was banana boat riding and I broke my collar bone immediately and there was no medics at all and a friends mom had to drive me 2 hours home to my parents so I could go to the hospital
For less than that extortionate amount of money you could take your whole family ‘glam-ping’ for two weeks. Jeez, some parents must be SO DESPERATE to get rid of their kids for two weeks if they’re going to pay out that kind of money.🤦♀️ Here in the UK I used to volunteer as staff for the local sea cadets. We’d do an annual week in the summer on the Isle of Wight (off the south coast of Hampshire) where approx 90 kids plus 25 staff would spend the week doing various activities…sailing, canoeing, hiking and orienteering, outdoor survival, firearms training , etc. The cost was £125.00 per child plus a 25% subsidy provided by the British Sea Cadet Corps. I worked in the kitchen with the chef, guaranteed those kids got 3 huge healthy and filling meals per day, plus any fruit they wanted and a tuck shop they could purchase from every evening. There was NEVER a shortage of food. Often there was ‘seconds’ up for grabs as there was so much to go round. EVERY KID WAS HAPPY, WE MADE SURE THEY WERE. Every kids had a blast and they came away with real certified training certificates for every course.👍🏻❤️
Jason voorhees be like : first covid and now it’s closing ! 😫can’t a killa catch a break(throws machete)?Ehhh screw it im goin back to sleep in the lake 😤😂🤣
I went to a small sailing camp in Gloucester VA in the early 80s run by a couple. On our third day of the sailing part we were hit by hurricane David in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The boat I was on was a 30 foot that suffered a broken mast with a barely running outboard and the other was a 29 foot boat with an inoperable engine. I'm not even sure if they had radios other than the communication between the boyfriend and girlfriend but no one came to our aid and they had to tie the boats together side by side and use our barely running engine to get into a marina that was flooded with no power. Didn't help much either that right before I left at 12 that my dad tells me he's got colon cancer. Now that's a summer camp disaster.
For anyone who wants a camp like this camp Ridgecrest in North Carolina absolutely best camp I’ve been to theres 2 camps one for females and for males crest ridge is for females and ridgecrest is for males I highly suggest this camp to anyone in the U.S also if your going into senior year or a senior you can sign up for salts to get community service hours you can get up to 300.
The camp promised parents dietary needs tailored to the kids and to the staff that was coming to work there. The staff paid their way to get to the camp and they were all from all over the country. Mind you that they didn’t even have enough food for the staff. Staff wouldn’t eat so kids could eat. There is more to the story here. Love, one of the peeps who quit because of poor conditions.
Ummmm if the camp cost $200 for two weeks, this wouldn’t be all over the news. I went to camps as a kid and frankly, this sounds like the Hilton compared to that.
@@jellymonster7325 lol, yeah, our camp was pretty bad. They would drop off “sundries” to our tent and we had to cook it ourselves. We had to dig our own latrine, even hike about 6 miles to shower. So just being warm, dry and clean would’ve been a huge upgrade. But, yeah, honestly, I’d be pretty angry if my kid were treated like that.
These parents trying to make up for last year with getting them out their hair, but the reality is, last year is laughing at them and so is this year! Smh!
I remember going to camp in the 90s a few years in a row and having a blast. In Texas. My poor ass family could afford to send their 8 kids. There’s no way it was anywhere near this price and it had all this and more. Even horse riding trails. The food was always school cafeteria style food which I actually liked as a kid. The property was huge and there were probably a couple hundred kids there.
@@candygram2539 Nope I just don't like when people assume thing just like the way you did and also I defend people I almost never critcize and even when I gave credit first because unlike you people I hate being mean to people unless means ones like you here!
@@MartialArtswithLucyLu I'm assuming its a scam, because it costs 3400$ for no apparent reason and they didn't even bother with staff or food. Someone collected money and provided nothing in return, at least nothing that warrants a 3400$ bill! Thats more then some hotels
Camp Thokomeupog in NH. Been running for 50+ years and I went for 6 years as a child. If you want a true camp experience for your children do the research on this one.
Sounds like someone thought they’d make a quick buck off taking some kids out into the woods and play camping, but got overwhelmed when they realized they actually had to feed and entertain them.
I wonder if they got a refund.
Hmm, looks like that Fyre Festival guy is out of jail already...
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@@therepublicofamerica716 *you're
@@martyes9563 Smarty ES*
I went to a camp that basically looks exactly like this but it was actually clean and had great memories. It costed $75 for 3 full days. These kids got scammed.
Precisely, check my comment. I used to do week long holidays with sea cadets for £125.00!!! It’s easy if you know what you’re doing, have the right staff, and you put every single child FIRST.🤷♀️
Sleepaway camp?
@@TomikaKelly grade 8 graduation trip (near Toronto area)
@@WeedShaggy This is the way.
Ikr *3,400* DOLLARS* R U KIDDING ME DEFINITELY NOT WORTH IT EVEN IF IT WAS HIGH QUALITY
$3400 for two weeks?
Those parents really wanted those kids out the house.
Lmaooo facts
Cant argue with that. Facts
nah i went to this camp for 3 years and it was amazing i begged my parents to go every year
It’s usually win win situation. We all need a break sometimes, even kids from their parents. This pandemic has caused a lot of togetherness, which can be good and bad. 😋
@@Summer-hp6ku bro i went to tim hortons camp for free and it was better then the preview trailer for this camp XD
The whole family could have taken a nice vacation for that price.
People with that kind of money probably drop 10 grand on a vacation for the family, it must be nice. But at the same time good for them!
And gone somewhere else loaded with Covid🙃
@@suppaduppafuppa I'm in high end tourism. I deal with people that pay $40-50k for a one way, private flight for a weekend getaway, then pay the same to get back. It's really quite terrible. That's life changing money for others, or a forgettable weekend for rich people because they do things like this so often
@@veganpotterthevegan I don't think anyone should go anywhere without protecting themselves by wearing a mask, or the shot, or both. We're adults here, I hope. So that goes without saying duh.
@@suppaduppafuppa Right?! That would be 3 vacations for my family
So your telling me that they closed after 6 days because of dirty dishes, food problems, untrained counselors, etc. and no refund was mentioned?!
Oh, the courts will get them their refund.
I went to the camp and they charged us 4,800 for 4 weeks I was there for three days and the refunded my mother 3,400 so they kept 1,400 for three days and it was horrific this segment doesn’t even cover half of the issues, kids where getting hit with bricks, pedophiles were creeping on campers and CITS, people were sneaking into cabins at night and touching campers (I was told this from girls in the cabins who experienced it), and they wouldn’t let literal sick kids who were throwing up and had raging fevers go home or call home let alone everyone else it was legit prison
Damn with all these complaints about camps I'm glad I never went when I was younger
I was given a refund but not everybody did
Another bad thing was a violent child hitting people with bricks
for that amount of money they should’ve had their meals prepared by gordon ramsey himself 🤦🏼♀️
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Agreed lol
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You ain't lying😂
How dose a camp that cost 3,400 for 2 weeks not have enough food? That camp should have a 5 star buffet every single day..
Damn right 💯
*ER'RY*
*DAMN*
*DAY!*
Foul on the play, edit please
That’s what I thought lol
3400 to sleep in a dusty cabin and to give my kid a cold sandwich lmao nope
Imagine your first day at camp literally became a living hell
it was like that when i got detached from mum.
@@Maroz4106 damn u good?
@@Maroz4106 same, I still remember how hard I cried when mom left me at kindergarten
if the food wasn't good that doesn't equal hell. don't overexaggerrate 🙄
@@inderbraich5152 i was sad brother
Man, this sounds like something straight out of a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, no offense to anyone, but not gonna lie, it really does.
I know right
No, no you have a point
True
Old School
DOAWK: Camp Crazy
I bet the long time staffers were let go at the beginning of the pandemic and the management (not a realizing or appreciating just how much work they did) thought anyone can do that type of labor.
Sounds about right
They really needed to hire better chefs and staff.
Man someone should hire you to solve all the worlds problems. You hit the nail on the head
Or maybe train them to become better, even the Counselors didn’t what they were doing or knew what they had signed up for.
They should hire Emeril Lagassee
Or Wolfgang puck
The camp I work at is also understaffed. Not quite a mess as this one though. I bet they’d looked hard for more/ better employees. There’s a shortage in the workforce all over the country.
The camp version of Fyre Festival.
And tanacon
Agreed
@@alanhoang2658 LMAO TANACON
Dashcon
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But did they at least give the parents a refund of some sort? A 50% refund at least? If not, I'd be looking into hiring a lawyer right quick to get my money back.
@@cadds8055 Yes because you have such a good understanding on how law suites work
@@coralrose5754 was that just a typo? Lawsuit not law suites [suites is like a fancy hotel room] 😉
@@coralrose5754 ah yes. The law suites of dewey cheethum and Howard hotels. Gotta lovem
Wojak!!
@@that.ll_do_pig There’s no point in correcting grammar if you can understand what it still meant.
Never leave your young children alone especially overnight with no phone service to adults that you don't know or have any qualifications.
I mean.. my parents did that to me when I was a kid, and being at camp was one of my fondest memories of my childhood.
I spent seven months of my childhood at a summer camp with no phone or electronics (no electricity in the whole cabin) and it was awesome. That was always the highlight of my year. We'd send our parents a letter once a week, and our parents could email us and they'd print out their emails and give them to us at lunch. Aside from that, no contact with parents aside from emergencies or extreme homesickness. Our counselors didn't have any qualifications aside from first aid training, just good people who were hired by competent camp administration (most of them were camp alumni).
By FAR the best months of my childhood. Parents in the modern age need to learn to let go. Tracking their kids and hovering over them does nothing for the kids. Most of the time it just sows distrust and makes the child feel less independent. Kids need time away from their parents, that's when a child can truly begin to flesh out their identity.
@@lllllllllllllllllllll1lll1 Well it's good u were lucky enough to have camp councilers who were responsible but not everyone is so lucky. I'm sorry but you can't trust anyone in this world and everyone who doesn't have anything happen to them is simply lucky.
@@winnie5873 unfortunately that wasn’t what was happening at this camp I went and it was horrific this segment doesn’t cover most of the biggest issues
I went to the camp and it was horrific this segment doesn’t even cover half of the issues, kids where getting hit with bricks, pedophiles were creeping on campers and CITS, people were sneaking into cabins at night and touching campers (I was told this from girls in the cabins who experienced it), and they wouldn’t let literal sick kids who were throwing up and had raging fevers go home or call home let alone everyone else it was legit prison
As someone who’s been a camp councillor over 5 years and trained in even just the basics (first aid, child safety, fire safety) I am absolutely appalled
I know, right? (Also a camp counselor)
The food problem has nothing to do with the pandemic. They just hired non qualified staff.
Kids don't need to eat that many just put grass and rock in their plate
@@74thartillery__ LMAO
it had alot to do with the pandemic, the food trucks didnt show up. the councelors we got every year from overseas could not come this year. dont speak without knowing both sides. the staff were always more than qualified when i went.
@CipherRage0909 ive been to this camp, the pandemic didnt allow councelors to come overseas so there was a shortage, the food trucks refused to show up due to the pandemic aswell.
Looks like the camp in that alien movie where the kids get left behind in an emp.
I thought the same thing 😅
@Miriam Svenson thanks. Been trying to think of the movie from Time to time but couldn't remember name
@@kaykepop4084 movie name?
@@Fx_Explains Miriam just wrote it... Rim of the World
@@Fx_Explains rim of the world
That $3,400 price tag for summer camp is exorbitant! Why not just take your kid on a Hawaiian Vacation or Disneyworld instead of sending them to some run down camp. Sounds like the parents just want to get rid of their kids.
Even better, just send them to boarding school or something for the summer... If they can spend $3400 for just 2 weeks, I'm sure they can spend a bit more for boarding school to get rid of their kids for the summer.
Maybe parents need to work
Cuz then the kids would be with you
At least it was not $26,000.
I had a friend who’s parents would spend nearly $15,000 a summer for each of their kids to go to a summer camp for like 3 weeks. Meanwhile, I was a student ambassador and got to go to France, Italy, and Greece each for a month and it was “only” $5,500. Obviously that’s a lot but more than 2/3rd was fundraising. But the idea that these kids when to a camp like this for only 3 weeks for not THAT much more....wow. Like they literally could’ve gone to Europe as a family, a cruise, Hawaii, etc.
These parents HATE their kids. They didn’t want to be around them, they paid $1,700 a week for a “rustic” experience.
Or maybe the camp looked fun and the kids wanted to go? How were they supposed to know it would end terribly?
@@julianna9854 naw. these kids didn't want to go lmao
LMFAOOO, bro some of y’all really don’t go outside. Now parents hate their kids if they send them to summer camp.
I feel your REALLY jumping to conclusions here. It’s so much more likely they thought it sounded fun and wanted their kids to be happy
@@SalTheCat only geeks like going to summer camp normal kids dont
I went to a camp SPECIFIC for my medical health. I'm a type 1 Diabetic. I remember that it'd only cost $200 for a full week. It was amazing. Staff was always trained well and on the very last day we'd all get a water slide. $3000 dollars for a basic camp for that amount of time? Insane.
Your camp had other funding sources. Traditional summer camps only have camp fees.
@@hometreasuresii Oh. Thanks for letting me know!♥️
Wow you must really hate having your kids around if you're willing to spend $3,400 just to get rid of them for 2 weeks.
What a dumb comment lol
@@Girtharmstrong69 What a dumb reply lol.
@@redsix0018 yes yours was
@@Girtharmstrong69 No yours was
Or they love their children and want them to get a good summer camp experience so they pay more lol. Wouldn’t it make more sense to send them to a cheap camp if they really hate them what a dumb comment
This is just the parents desparate to get a "time off" from their kids after more then a year holed up together.
Can you blame them? I would be desperate to get rid of them too.
@@naya6593 is it?? maybe privileged ass ones, $1,000 a week is not realistic for most American families.
@@naya6593 I’m American never went to summer camp except for Mets baseball camp in Queens learned baseball from players and coaches but never went to a “real “ summer camp
If they paid over $3 grand then most likely they wanted not just some kid-free time but an actual quality experience for their kids.
after all the stories of seemingly normal people turning out to be weirdos.....and yall still willing to send your kids to summer camp? save your $3400 and buy a couple walmart kayaks and camping gear and head to the lake for the weekend AS A FAMILY....
Great advice…
lame as hell
Because going to camp for two weeks is fun. You get to do thinks that a weekend camping trip just won't offer.
Not to mention, not every parent is into camping or would even know how to pitch a tent or start a proper campfire.
Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of kids go to camp every year, without anything negative taking place.
I remember going to camp in when I was a kid. It was the best 2 weeks of summer. Not because the camp was all that great. It was because I got away from my family for two blissful weeks.
@@metasprite5648 Nope, not abusive. I had very annoying siblings. Plus for a long time in my youth, my 3 siblings dad and stepmom, lived in a 4 room apartment. So I just loved the two weeks to myself.
Family has always been very important to me. I now am blessed with 3 adult children, 5 grandchildren and a wife I have been married to for 35 years.
*And then everyone dies instead of just the kids!*
As a summer camp director, I can say there is lots that can go wrong
oo what camp
@@lunabird1453 Canada parents for French Nova Scotia 😂 long name. Fun camp
I can only imagine... If I wrote home from camp telling my mom I was not having fun. She would say "boy you better start having fun because you have no choice" $3,400???? Lol
Hummm, nothing like this would ever happen at Camp Lord of The Flies.
🎶Kyrie, Kyrie🎶
that book was really good no kizzy
I mean….. If we’re comparing the two camps, this one suddenly seems like a five star hotel.
I don’t think they read that anymore too long and classical
@@stellak-m7746 It pops up as one of the recommended books on the AP English Literature test. Mildly traumatizing when you’re expecting a happy island trip.
The title: "shut down after JUST 6 disastrous days."
My mind: "What? You wished it would be more days?
He's saying that's how bad it was that it only took 6 days to be shut down
@@coultonharmon2266 So... is there a record to shut down a summer camp?
@@loganvazquez5042 No idea but this probably takes it
I thought someone died
Everybody Gangsta until The Simpson’s predicted the real Kamp Krusty, and it’s actually this.
The simpsons have done it again.
Also that clip of the camp granada was also featured in a simpsons episode.
And in to the time warp I go
“I no longer fear hell because I’ve been to Kamp Krusty”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. And I can say without hyperbole that this place is a million times worse than all of them put together!”
Kamp Krusty was in 1992, now this was the first time I’ve seen a bad summer camp.
Did they ever get refunded? The parents and children literally got robbed!
We used to take our 3 daughters camping & swimming for a very low cost and had a wonderful time together. Could have an amazing family holiday for the cost of this
Im not sending my kids anywhere nowadays. Can't trust people. We'll do family fun things together
Yeah their kids that drowned at summer camp
I get your worry’s but there’s still a lot of great people out there. I haven’t given up on humanity. The media is making us all believe that everyone is evil, when in all reality, everyone I meet day to day is amazing. 🤷🏻♂️
I know right I know quite a few people who were molested by their counselors at summer camp and I also know a youth pastor that I grew up with in my town that just was busted for molesting his foster children. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ Mine can scream all she wants but I don't let her do nothing but oh well
Your worry is understandable but don’t forget that kids should be able to go out and explore.
@@smallartist4945 my kids do get out and explore. We actually made a game of it. We go places and see how many different things we can collect or go on bike rides
How does the pandemic have anything to do with undercooked food among other employee related issues? I think they're using that as a scapegoat for not properly staffing.
Well, a lot of people might not want to work at a summer camp because of Covid. But the food issues sound like someone got lazy
Agreed. The camp probably just hired bad staff/employees to save money. I guess they found out the hard way that good help is key to making things run smoothly.
1:10 THE FOOD WAS STILL RAW???
sounds like Gordon Ramsay needs to pay them a visit
*dishes out gourmet pb& j sandwiches*
Theres this camp in shady side called "camp Nightwing" they should really tried that
I was gonna say these shots kinda look like nightwing
$3400???? That’s $242.86 a DAY per KID!!! And that couldn’t afford the camp enough food? Or enough money to acquire proper counselors and kitchen staff??? I’m thinking from the camp director’s standpoint, the problem wasn’t having enough funds, it was a lack of knowing how to properly run a freakin’ summer camp!! Still though, as a parent I’d be demanding at LEAST a partial refund for spending that much money on a disaster like that
Lmao they charged what every parent is getting in their child tax credit. Sounds like a scheme to me
Dude, all the needed to do was hire Chris McClean and Chef they’d take care of rations and challenges by adding bigger challenges
Yes Oh my god
@hello is it me youre looking for sorry if you were joking, but if not there is a live action version called Survivor.
@hello is it me youre looking for I hope you’re joking about them making a live action version 😭 Total drama is a parody of the live action one Survivor lol
If they didn't issue refunds there's gonna be lawsuits 🤣
Yes there is😭💀
There's already some 👀
I thought they were about to say a lady killed all the counselors after her son drowned in the lake
No but i did see the mother get her head chopped off and the son came as a grown ass man with a hockey mask on
I wouldn’t send my kids to a camp in the middle of a pandemic anyhow. Unnecessary risk :(
i went to camop waukeela and it was the best u should check it out its very saf3e
Just wear masks or something
no risk at all lol
For $3,400 those kids deserved a hot meal 3x a day!! And snacks offered all day. 😭 Poor kids.
@@SinSerity29 And gold cash
thats what we got every year i went, it was just a terrible year for staff and the food trucks didnt show up.
Plus water all day for hydration 👍
Its all a lie Jason Voorhees is still roaming around the camps
yes
He still out there....
@@BigWolfman32 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah 3400 would be better for a investment acount in their name so they can get a head start in life lol
Right, the S&P was only up like 70% last year!
Imagine 3,400 times however many kids were there.. that's a lot of money more than enough to hire more staff and buy some paper plates
I had a scary feeling they were gonna say the camp had to shut down because a kid drowned in the lake when the counselors were not paying attention.
Perhaps gettin' busy...
Jason
@@someguy3314 j a s o n
Jason?
Vorhees.
The Simpsons predicted the future yet again with their episode Kamp Krusty.
I thought the same thing
Maybe it was run by Mr. Black
$3,400 for a camp omg.
I remember the good old camp days were amazing. Everyone was trained and knew exactly what to do
Who would send their kids off to a camp in the middle of a freaking pandemic. LUDICROUS!
Get over it. Its a virus and it wont go away.
@Makhi Baldwin parents who aren’t able to watch their kids due to work? I work at a day camp and this is the case for me. The kids get breakfast, lunch, and snacks. They get to play outside mostly and swim indoors.
People who havent gotten sick and kids havent gotten sick its a large risk and not always smartest idea but also the virus isnt going to go away so unless youre at risk or a pansy , why not go to camp just practice basic hugiene and make sure the staff have bleach to clean and first aid on staff and a route to hospital. Stop fear mongering a virus
My older daughter has been wanting to do a summer camp. This makes me not want to do it. $3400 per student and they couldn't afford to give better quality? I don't care if there is a staffing issue or not, you do not hire people to run a kitchen who cannot cook or even clean and that director should be ashamed. Pay me a decent check and I would of ran that kitchen cooking all the food by myself and directing other staff to proper cleanliness.
The camp I went to as a kid and later as a counselor would have been closed down by the state immediately. Camp can be a wonderful experience that stays with a person their entire life.
But parents have to be careful and be very choosey.
yikes I would have barfed if I had food served on a dirty dish
What a beautiful place to be I would really want to be there right now
Heeding a lil bit is the first place in a few block States in a way to the caribbean and in
✋🛑 *DONT READ MY NAME* 🛑✋
@@dontreadmypicture8003 Shush
Too bad it shut down due to how great it is
....with no food.
But I'm hungry 🥺
Damn! They should be refunding everyone! That’s disgusting
Imagine the camps that didn’t have rich parents who got the poor conditions broadcast on the news. I’d imagine this is one of the more capable businesses to even be able to provide a decent camp environment. The smaller, less expensive places wouldn’t be critiqued the same way and it wouldn’t have been such an impact, but still prolly face similar issues all over the country.
I didn't hear anything about those parents getting their money back
I bet they got their Littles creatures back. 😎
Hello nice to meet you
Did the camp that I went to was camp Timberlake it was a church type camp with a bunch of extracurricular activities had way more than this one did and I'm pretty sure my parents only paid like $300 for like a week and a half or two weeks I forget how long
" l went camping for this next joke "
If it's so fun outside
Tell that to the homeless people.
I was a Camp Counselor when I was in college and we didn’t have much of a budget, but we still made it work. These issues sound like incompetency, rather than “challenges” from COVID. And that is a RIDICULOUS amount of money for two weeks. It was 600 for two weeks at the camp I worked at and that included all meals, a spot in the cabin, a sweater, a t shirt, a t shirt to tie dye, and craft supplies. These people got scammed…
I worked at a camp in 2021. We had campers doing line serving and cits had to be promoted to actual counselors. The amount laws the camp broke to stay running was astounding. It doesn’t surprise me that other camps experienced similar issues that year. The reason why it all happened was because there were no international staff allowed to fly in to work and most of these camps rely on them to take up to 50% of the roles on camp.
No kids for me that 3400 can be spent on food and other supplies
“They’ve already started planning for summer of 2022!!”
Lol.. yea because OBVIOUSLY they need AT LEAST an entire year to get things right! 🤦🏻♀️
They didn’t open in 2020 tho
Once again, Simpsons predicted the future. This is literally Camp Krusty LOL 😂😂
I’m a Simpson fan and I never thought about that
Maaarge…is Lisa at camp granada?
We went to a camp that looked exactly like this in Alabama for a school trip and the first activity we did was banana boat riding and I broke my collar bone immediately and there was no medics at all and a friends mom had to drive me 2 hours home to my parents so I could go to the hospital
“They already started planning for summer 2222” nobody gonna send their kid after this lol
well im definitely going back because the 3 years i went were the best times of my life
@@Summer-hp6ku that’s a lot of money for that camp 😬
*I bet Wednesday and Pugsley Addams shut that camp down....*
“Marge! Is Lisa at camp Granada?” -Homer Simpson
This camp thought the fyre festival documentary was an instructional video
For less than that extortionate amount of money you could take your whole family ‘glam-ping’ for two weeks. Jeez, some parents must be SO DESPERATE to get rid of their kids for two weeks if they’re going to pay out that kind of money.🤦♀️
Here in the UK I used to volunteer as staff for the local sea cadets. We’d do an annual week in the summer on the Isle of Wight (off the south coast of Hampshire) where approx 90 kids plus 25 staff would spend the week doing various activities…sailing, canoeing, hiking and orienteering, outdoor survival, firearms training , etc. The cost was £125.00 per child plus a 25% subsidy provided by the British Sea Cadet Corps. I worked in the kitchen with the chef, guaranteed those kids got 3 huge healthy and filling meals per day, plus any fruit they wanted and a tuck shop they could purchase from every evening. There was NEVER a shortage of food. Often there was ‘seconds’ up for grabs as there was so much to go round. EVERY KID WAS HAPPY, WE MADE SURE THEY WERE. Every kids had a blast and they came away with real certified training certificates for every course.👍🏻❤️
Ahhhhhhhhh...what about refunding the Camp goers half of their 💰 back 🤔...they only stayed 1 week 😲🙏.
I remember going to camp for the first and last time.. damn.
They better give the parents their money back but also lower the price(who wants to pay $3,400 for a camp that had so many mistakes the year before)
Who wants to pay $3400 for *any* camp! I can’t imagine paying $1000 for two weeks, that’s just crazy.
Jason voorhees be like : first covid and now it’s closing ! 😫can’t a killa catch a break(throws machete)?Ehhh screw it im goin back to sleep in the lake 😤😂🤣
I went to a small sailing camp in Gloucester VA in the early 80s run by a couple. On our third day of the sailing part we were hit by hurricane David in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The boat I was on was a 30 foot that suffered a broken mast with a barely running outboard and the other was a 29 foot boat with an inoperable engine. I'm not even sure if they had radios other than the communication between the boyfriend and girlfriend but no one came to our aid and they had to tie the boats together side by side and use our barely running engine to get into a marina that was flooded with no power. Didn't help much either that right before I left at 12 that my dad tells me he's got colon cancer. Now that's a summer camp disaster.
For anyone who wants a camp like this camp Ridgecrest in North Carolina absolutely best camp I’ve been to theres 2 camps one for females and for males crest ridge is for females and ridgecrest is for males I highly suggest this camp to anyone in the U.S also if your going into senior year or a senior you can sign up for salts to get community service hours you can get up to 300.
FYRE: Wilderness Edition. I bet Ja Rule was the camp owner or something.
The camp manager was like :
"Camp Crystal Lake can reopened and so can we"
How hard is it to feed a bunch of kids ? Just order pizza
The camp promised parents dietary needs tailored to the kids and to the staff that was coming to work there. The staff paid their way to get to the camp and they were all from all over the country. Mind you that they didn’t even have enough food for the staff. Staff wouldn’t eat so kids could eat. There is more to the story here. Love, one of the peeps who quit because of poor conditions.
I didn't hear anything about receiving a refund. Did I miss that or ........?
Refund.
Ummmm if the camp cost $200 for two weeks, this wouldn’t be all over the news. I went to camps as a kid and frankly, this sounds like the Hilton compared to that.
@@jellymonster7325 lol, yeah, our camp was pretty bad. They would drop off “sundries” to our tent and we had to cook it ourselves. We had to dig our own latrine, even hike about 6 miles to shower. So just being warm, dry and clean would’ve been a huge upgrade. But, yeah, honestly, I’d be pretty angry if my kid were treated like that.
These parents trying to make up for last year with getting them out their hair, but the reality is, last year is laughing at them and so is this year! Smh!
After watching Part 2 of Fear Street, I’m never ever going to a summer camp
Caliban Chesterfield??
That’s one hell of a name!
Mom musta been a Shakespeare fan 😜
I remember going to camp in the 90s a few years in a row and having a blast. In Texas.
My poor ass family could afford to send their 8 kids. There’s no way it was anywhere near this price and it had all this and more. Even horse riding trails.
The food was always school cafeteria style food which I actually liked as a kid.
The property was huge and there were probably a couple hundred kids there.
The Kitchen Assistant looks like he's part of the Adams Family.
I wouldn’t let that man that’s a “kitchen assistance” cook a meal for me lol
Take it the parents were all reimbursed.🤔
3400$ ? For 800 euros u can go 2 weeks to portugal in a 4 star hotel. Seems liks just a waste of money.
0:10 lol that stock sound effect. 😂
Why do people send their children to strangers for two weeks? My parents used to send me to computer and English classes during school breaks.
Because it's fun.
So basically the real life camp Kiki-waka
My thoughts exactly!
Jesus, its like a mixture of Fyre Festival and Tanacon.
Wassup Victoria, your bad
@@saintlouis1087
In a good or a bad way?
@@victoriamadlein in a very very good way 😎
I went through that when I went to camp. Oat meal for breakfast and lunch no dinner three days in a row!!
No the thing is… Did they get a refund or not?
This is exactly like that Simpsons episode.
This “camp” sounds like a straight up scam.
Stop assuming things you don't know here!
@@MartialArtswithLucyLu why so butthurt? You're the one running the scam aren't you? 😅😅😅
@@candygram2539 Nope I just don't like when people assume thing just like the way you did and also I defend people I almost never critcize and even when I gave credit first because unlike you people I hate being mean to people unless means ones like you here!
@@candygram2539 Why would I I hate camps but just because I hate camps doesn't mean I'll judge them here and you shouldn't either here!
@@MartialArtswithLucyLu I'm assuming its a scam, because it costs 3400$ for no apparent reason and they didn't even bother with staff or food. Someone collected money and provided nothing in return, at least nothing that warrants a 3400$ bill! Thats more then some hotels
The only thing they should be preparing for his bankruptcy
Imagine getting billed 3400, your child goes through hell on earth, and all they do is shut the camp down.
Camp Thokomeupog in NH. Been running for 50+ years and I went for 6 years as a child. If you want a true camp experience for your children do the research on this one.