“I never understood how parents who keep a watchful chinuch eye on their children all year, hand them over to a 19 year old to be the mechanech for 2 months. Does the director really know if the counselor is 100% mentally stable?
Yidden have been shipping their yinglach to summer camp for at least 70-80 years and I’m not sure I recall any cases of a 19yo counselor attacking the kids in his bunk and cutting off their peyos with a chainsaw. Indeed, I suspect that in many cases, the counselors are more mentally stable than the parents (at least judging by my recollections of parental behavior on visiting day).