Camps crackdown on care packages, and more
Sleepaway camps across the country have begun banning care packages to prevent overbearing parents from sending their campers forbidden items.
Camps crackdown on care packages
Sleepaway camps across the country have begun banning care packages, to prevent overbearing parents from sending their campers forbidden items such as cellphones and candy. In the escalating arms race, some parents have taken to hiding contraband inside hollowed-out books, stuffed animals, and tampons. Jim Gill, owner of a Maine camp, says the parental packages “create such a distraction from the values we’re trying to promote.”
After dousing fire, teacher gets fired
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A Florida day-care teacher was fired for leaving her classroom to put out a fire. Michelle Hammack traced a burning smell to an oven fire in the kitchen, led her students outside, and extinguished the fire. Owner Olga Rozhaov then fired her. “I fired her because she left the room,” Rozhaov explained.
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