Elijah Stone

Review of Jewish Community Center of Met...

First, I must clarify: this is a review of the JCC...

First, I must clarify: this is a review of the JCC Day Camp, not one about the actual facility itself. As not only a former camper, but as a staff member as well, I can vouch for the fact that the camp uses the JCCs stunning facility as a veneer to disguise a grossly unorganized and unprepared camp. Under the pretense of a professional institution, they hire completely incompetent and unqualified high school graduates to deal with kids with special needs which obviously require training for specialized assistance.

In fact, I have seen first hand instances where councilors have been physical with special needs camper as well as have been verbally abusive (with profanity) when directing campers.

This issue starts from the top down where a group of economical, greedy and out of touch administrative figures constantly switch up the schedule to ensure they have to spend the least amount of money on activities with no regard for the kids or their enjoyment.

To make matters worse, these arbitrary schedule changes are, in a grotesque form of unprofessional incompetence, never conveyed properly to the staff, which leaves the confused and uninformed counselors with no idea or structure of what to do with these kids; and, already getting paid substantially below the minimum wage, how can one even expect these councilors to enthusiastically entertain these kids with no structure? I would highly recommend against enrolling in this camp as well as strongly suggest not working there if you value your self worth and dignity (emblematic of this fact: 11 staff members quit within the first two weeks of camp).

To make matters worse, they had this review previously removed under false pretenses so that the reviews would not accurately describe their product to parents.

If anyone wants to verify these claims they may talk to any of the junior staff that begrudgingly still work there.