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Are Helicopter Parents Ruining Summer Camp?

    July 24, 2017 | 10:59 AM

    In a wired world, summer camp is one of the last phone-free zones. But campers, staff and especially parents don’t always appreciate the message. The NPR Ed team investigates.

    “It beeped in the envelope. That’s how we knew.” Leslie Conrad is the director of Clemson Outdoor Lab in Pendleton, S.C., which runs several different camps during the summer. Clemson bans cellphones and other electronic devices for campers. That makes sense.

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