Sleepaway camps are portrayed as settings with frequent safety lapses, staff misconduct, and traumatic incidents affecting campers and employees. Reported problems include medical emergencies like unexpected births, lack of basic safety equipment such as carbon monoxide alarms, and dangerous supervision failures like unclipped high-ropes harnesses. Staff behaviors ranged from exploitative schemes and viral social-media posts to organized fights, charging campers for phone calls, and discriminatory attempts to 'correct' LGBTQ campers. Outcomes included firings, trauma, illness, and in one case a death requiring discreet removal of a body. These accounts point to systemic supervision, safety, and ethical issues at some camps.
Took a girl to the infirmary for cramps at 5 am... and I had to run and get help when she started giving birth,
A chef working at my camp got fired for making viral tiktoks about working at a fat camp. It's not a fat camp.
Our kitchen didn't have a carbon monoxide alarm and all the cooks went certifiably crazy from 4-6 weeks of exposure.
The director of a Christian camp I worked at told us to send the campers that came out to us as gay to him so he could, and I quote, 'correct them.'
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