GREAT READS → DOUBLE TAKE Issue 864 · June 9, 2021

Blacklisted       

Her daughter's being punished for her at-risk sister

Blacklisted       
Her daughter’s being punished for her at-risk sister
Rina: You gave us so much trouble in the past. Why should we accept your daughter?
Miriam: Why does my daughter have to suffer because of her sister?

 

 

Rina

Summer starts in November when you run a sleepaway camp program.

First it’s the troubleshooting: What could we have done differently last year, how will we make this summer even better. Then it’s the initial planning: hiring head staff, developing a basic theme, and programming. Finally we open registration, and the real fun begins.

Baruch Hashem, we’re well established and have a great name, but thing is that you never make everyone happy, because it’s simply impossible.

There are always those last-minute desperate applications you have to turn down, which makes you look heartless for refusing to help someone in need. There’s always the one exception that you just have to make, even though registration is closed, which frustrates the administrative department. And don’t even get me started on the backlash when the rules are broken once, from all the dozens of applicants that we just couldn’t make an exception for.

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