What a truly awful idea to have professional photographers follow children around at a summer camp. The best part of being away is the complete disconnect from the world outside and immersion into the here and now. So many people (adults and kids alike) are completely dependent on their devices and connectivity that they have long forgotten who they were or could be - if fully disconnected. The article quotes Lenore Skenazy:
"If you were tormented at school, or even just misunderstood, camp was a place you could become another self, even your true self. Why? Because you were AWAY, unshackled from the person everyone 'knew' you were. Camp was like a chrysalis, where you metamorphosed."
How true and what a sad thing to happen to these kids. Skenazy says of their plight "like the panopticon at prison – there is nowhere to hide. Nowhere to grow."
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