Decline of Camps
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.
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