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Show students spend camp time By LYNETTE SAWYER Record Reporter Each and every school year, millions of high school students spend oodles of dollars on extracurricular extra-curricular activities. Absorbing a big chunk ol this money is the summer instructional camps I sponsored by different i organizations for the I purpose of preparing students for the various activities. Cedar High students will attend basketball camps, cheerleading camps, leadership camps, drill team camps, football camps, journalism jour-nalism camps and more before the summer is over. These camps range in cost from zilch to well over $100 for four or five . days. Transportation costs must also be added. The important question therefore is, "Is it all worth it?" Unless one has experienced ex-perienced one of these camps, it is difficult to understand just exactly what happens at them. The instruction is often of immence value. Things a student learns here can be taken back to the school and put to uses that will benefit the entire studentbody. What's more, the participating students often develop a special and close friendship friend-ship with those they attend at-tend camps with, and also new acquaintances they meet at the camp. But perhaps most important, in the participant's eyes anyway, is the opportunity op-portunity to have fun! After lights out there are the all-night food binges and gossip sessions. There is the boobie-trapping of friends' beds, and the always popular surprise photos! These always seem to end up in the hands of somebody's girlfriend, somebody's boyfriend, or on the school bulletin board. |