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6/26/12 |
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have 2 kids under age 8 at the camp. the experience is pure joy for both. the director is a strong and competent leader who is fully invested on both a personal and professional level. Medford exemplifies the strength of the South Jersey Jewish community.
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3/30/12 |
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Great camp. My children all had terrific experiences. The food has improved significantly both in quality and variety.
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3/29/12 |
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Comprehensive, innovative with a family like atmosphere. This will be our son's third summer attending the JCC Camps at Medford. We are thrilled with our choice.
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3/27/12 |
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I went there as a camper, was a counselor and now my kids go! They can't wait for summer!
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3/27/12 |
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Attended as a camper, worked there as a staff member, and send my child there now. Great summer experience!
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3/27/12 |
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Greatest Camp around! Each year it gets better and better!
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3/27/12 |
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This will be my 15th summer at the JCC Camps at Medford. I was a camper and have worked in various positions around the camp. I plan to be at the JCC for many more years to come and send my own children there some day. It is great for making friends, learning/trying new things and expanding your Jewish background.
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3/27/12 |
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Love Love Love JCC Medford! It's a wonderful program for all kids. My son participates in the special needs program and while his one on one is not a special education "professional" she was spectacular and made sure my son was included in all activities. My son loves camp and can't wait to go back for his third year. The good counselors probably made serious tips so I'm thinking the counselors who are complaining probably sat around, doing nothing to engage the kids and therefore got very little in tips.
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3/27/12 |
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A great camp for kids of all ages. Value for services offered. Activties and food services are well appreciated.
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3/27/12 |
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My daughter can't wait for camp to start. There is not a better camp in our metropolitan area.
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3/15/12 |
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I was a camper and counselor at jcc camps for many years and it is the best! I cannot believe anyone could find something to complain about this camp. The facilities are amazing and the staff is awesome. All this complaining about pay, but who works at a camp for the money? Get a life. And try getting a job there- always full- what does that tell you. Not enough air conditioning? It's the summer, people. What's better than an awesome lake, lots of pools with slides, a sledding slope, splashpark, etc. My kids starting going there 3 summers ago and will never leave! They cry when it ends all summer and count the days when it starts again.
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7/26/11 |
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We did not choose to send our kids to JCC at Medford as we were underwhelmed by the camp itself and also by its staffing. My husband and I both were campers as kids, daycamps and then overnight camps and we had expectations for our kids. While the JCC at Medford seems packed with great activities, there is very little shelter for the HHH days, very few air conditioned places and the bunks are merely partially covered hutches. Kids cannot leave things at camp overnight and because of the foliage, there seems to be too little grass and a lot of dirt. We also did not like that the counselors were younger than the camp's competitors..too young in our minds to be caring for lower camp age kids. From our friends who opted to send their kid, I hear mixed reviews. SOme love it and others have their issues. I am sure that JCC is a great place for many (it is surely large enough) but it did not fit the bill for us.
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7/7/11 |
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My brother went to camp at JCC and I worked there for four years. I can't give much of an account as far as the camp activities but from what I observed the kids doing, it seemed pretty fun to me. The facilities are the strongest point I'd say; they have a bunch of pools, sports fields, lake, petting zoo, rock wall, golf course, archery, the list goes on and everything is well maintained. I worked in the kitchen and it was a blast. I love the people there and I miss that place to this day. As far as the comments about food; well, you can't please everyone. There's much more choice in lunch than at other camps and the food is generally good quality. What the other commentors said about staff though is true. Most of the people that work there are 14-18 year olds being paid BELOW minimum wage because the camp pays by the season meaning it's a salary not an hourly wage. senority is based on age not experience. That aside though the real issue is with the senior staff that run the camp.
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7/4/11 |
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JCC has great facilities, however the CA,CIT,Jr, and Sr. staff do not pay attention to the kids! All they do is sit around and talk to each other all day and comment about how much they hate the camp. The OHOD program is good in theory, but I noticed that the advocates aren't included in any of the activities and when the kids have breaks downs no one helps them. Many of the advocates quit because of the low pay, high stress,and lack of help. No worth it overall, just get a babysitter for the summer it's cheaper.
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6/23/11 |
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i have been going to jcc camps since i was going into 3rd grade (eilat division. i have had some awesome counselors and the activities are great. i am more into art so i do more art than sports but the best sport is gaga ;) i dont do other sports because it is mostly really competitive boys and toxic mean girls. i did softball and i was the only girl and the coach wasb eing **** and kept fielding the ball to me-ON THE GROUND. rainy days are cool because they have put on a movie and last year we watched the simpsons movie and it was really funny! the pool is great, the waterslide is AWESOME, but the worst part are the lifeguards and the way they teach instructional swim. i was in a level where you had to dive from the side of the pool. i had passed everything in the level (swimming a bunch of laps, which i'm great at) but i just couldn't dive. the lifeguard was just out of college or possibly still in college. she was really annoying and yelled at me for not doing a perfect dive.
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9/6/10 |
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I work at JCC. It's not the best pay, but I love what I do so to me it's not about the pay. You get good tips, too. Really, the more you put in, the more you get out. The kids always seem to love camp, especially splash park! :)
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5/25/10 |
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I loved my time as a camper there, each summer got better, especially once I could choose my own schedule. it is definitely very expensive, but a lot of fun. The OH/OD program is phenominal, they make facility improvements each year, and the senior staff is great. The pay for younger staff members is appallingly low, and leads to a lack of incentive to work as hard as they could be. Not a very Jewishly oriented camp, which allows it to appeal to Jews and non-Jews, as they have little programming (one period a week, plus an israel day) that is religious in nature.
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8/22/09 |
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This was my first summer working there and I was very disappointed with the camp.The arts/craft type activities are done in a pavillion at a picnic table with no a/c so on days where it's hot it's unbearable.Most of the food is disgusting especially the hot dogs and the juice. The staff members especially the cunselors should be ashamed of themselves because many counselors I came across, they curseed in front of the kids or used bad language when talking to them.Kids 10-12 get to go on 1 trip, and this yr it was to a run down park. The camp has a popular program for special needs kids, my only complaint is that the people shadowing the kids are usually college age and have no experience in special ed and not majoring in special ed. Also,I would only recommend this camp to people who want to raise their kids as religious jews because,almost all signs there are in Hebrew, they can NOT eat until the Hamotzi,they have shabbat and something called avdallah.Would not get your money's worth.
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8/15/09 |
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The Staff is not well trained, resulting in poorly handlded situations. The camp lacks proper communication with parents. The staff, for some of the activities, don't do there jobs. Once in Cheerleading, the cheerleading staff just sat at a table painting their nails, not paying any attention to the children . At set production, we spent the entire period sweeping the floors. Most of the staff just sits there slacking off even when the children need help .I don't recommend this camp. Each year, we go back and feel the same disappointment.
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7/20/09 |
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I LOVE JCC IT IS SO FUN EVERYONE IS SO NICE I KEEP COMING BACK THE .STAFF IS SO NICE I LOVE THIS CAMP THE FOOD IS VERY VERY GOOD FOR CAMP FOOD EVERYONE INCLUDES EVERYONE SO IT IS A BLAST IN THE SUMMER FOR ALL!!
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6/28/09 |
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I attended JCC camps for 10 years and enjoyed it. I have worked there as a CIT and a Counselor's Assistant. Not only do they pay extremely poorly, they do not reward the counselors that do an exceptional job. They take advantage of them. They make promises and don't keep them. They have a rule that in order to be a senior couselor you must be going into college. However they bend the rule for who they choose. If you want to be a senior counselor and make more money or a bus counselor and make more money. Then you better know someone. I am extremely dissapointed with the JCC. They don't care about (most) of their staff. They take advantage of you. As far as Chaverim in concerned. You spend a tremendous amount of time on the bus. It is extremely expensive and the food is horrible. There is an overnight trip included. The conditions are horrible.
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6/27/08 |
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I worked here for one summer and never went back. For $2 an hour it's not worth the aggravation, and they are incredibly cheap. The poor kids are never allowed to sit out of an activity, the bathrooms are for very young kids and not very clean, and the food is just wrong. Everyone is stressed all the time because of the pressure they put on the counselors.
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2/17/08 |
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Chaverim is good, but the busses and food sucked. I'd bring my own money every day so I didn't have to eat a piece of cheese on bread (which we really were sometimes given) and they were not the bwst with bussing sitiuations. I'd take a bus for 35 minutes to get to medford in the morning. The, I'd take anouther bus from Medford to my home town, when we went skating or bowling. Then, I'd take anouther bus back to medford. It would be the end of the camp day, so we'd get back to camp so we have just enough time to GET ON THE CAMP BUS AND GO THE EXACT SME WAY AS BEFORE. But the JCC camp bus takes forever to leave, and it's on top of about 12 stops before mine. Why can't all the kids in my town get off at the JCC in my town? It saves like, two hours of bus riding. Makes no sense!
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12/30/07 |
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This camp is not exceptional, but is one of the biggest in the area and provides a good variety of activities. The facilities are pretty good, and your days will be occupied, but in the end, I didn't get anything at all out of the experience of spending 7 summers there. Until about 6th grade, you don't even get to choose your own activities, you have to stay with your "bunk" (why is it called a bunk if you don't even sleep there? One will never know!) all day and do every activity even if you don't want to... I always hated playing a boring game of kickball in the 105 degree heat, but was never allowed to sit out, which I hated. After 6th grade, you get to choose your own activities which is better. The kids here are not the friendliest, and are jappy squared... I didn't make any real friends here. The counsolers are just high school kids getting paid a dollar an hour, so don't expect much from them either, I don't blame them.
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12/4/07 |
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exellent camp. Greeat friends. Concelors are great the bathrooms are ewwwwwwwww. Te hot dogs really do bounce so beware. But forget about the food and bathrooms the camp is the best!!
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10/5/07 |
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I have gone to jcc for 10 years and most of them were the most amazing summers of my life. As a camper it is the best day camp in the world (not to mention Medford) to send your children too. However, if you are looking to ba a staff member, you may want to try another camp. Being a counsler at Jcc was the worst summer of my life. SO i suggest this camp for ages 13 and under.
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4/30/07 |
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This is an amazing camp. I've been going there for 11 years, and plan to go there many more. The majority of the staff is great and really wants to help everyone. The activities are unbeatable (we have sledding!) Considering that it's outdooors, it's very clean. Has a great nurses office. Campers should never feel like they have no one to pay attention to them, as everyone is friendly and wants to help. It is expensive, but totally worth it! Tons of pools, fields, carnivals- altogther AWESOME!
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10/29/06 |
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I spent 12 summer at the JCC Camps at Medford, as both a camper and a counselor. I can truley say that I enjoyed each and every summer spent there. The facilities are second to none, the activities are diverse and fun, there is a great camper to counselor ratio. There are plenty of great opportunities for older campers too. I will always look back at the JCC Camps at Medford as my summer home, and I would recommend this camp to anyone!
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9/6/06 |
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Err, well the camp is good for ages 5-8. After that you realise how incredibly cheap they are. Oh and I got paid $1.14 an hour as a counselor there. Can you say, not worth it? Facilities are excellent for the younger kids, four swimming pools, splash park, cafeteria with hot meals, veeerrry expensive to attend, also a travel camp. An EXCELLENT program called Open Hearts Open Doors that tends to mentally or physically challenged campers who get their own personal advoacate. A wonderful camp to go to for everyone except the staff! :DDD
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8/30/06 |
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I was going to be a councelor, but I found out that I only got payed 400 bucks for the summer. CHILD LABOR PEOPLE!
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