Ain. What remains of our “pretty summer camps”?

Declining attendance, shorter and more expensive stays, aging centers, reduced public funding, the breakdown of the family unit... For all these reasons, since the 1990s, summer camps have not been as popular as in the 1960s. In 2020, according to figures from the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education (Injep), only 600,000 children in France were able to take advantage of them. Compared to 4 million 50 years earlier.

If we do the math, we are today far from the social mix that the centers continue to proudly carry like a banner: middle school students from privileged backgrounds leave more than those from working-class backgrounds (27% of children of executives compared to 10% of children of workers). And what about the classes...

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