The trends, the trendier, and the trendiest

There is good reason not to raise taxes on the extremely wealthy even if it means bringing the government and the economy of this great nation to its knee-pads. Their children could be deprived of that great American tradition, summer camp.

As the NYT reports, the current trend is to take your child to camp by private jet. It saves time, if not gas.

For decades, parents in the Northeast who sent their children to summer camp faced the same arduous logistics of traveling long distances to remote towns in Maine, New Hampshire and upstate New York to pick up their children or to attend parents’ visiting day.

Now, even as the economy limps along, more of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps. One private jet broker, Todd Rome of Blue Star Jets, said his summer-camp business had jumped 30 percent over the last year.

However, there are always those one step ahead:

But some parents have already tired of this private-plane status infiltrating the simpler world of summer camp. Nancy Chemtob, a divorce lawyer, made several summer trips to Maine in the past decade, where her children attended camp.

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

But then, of course, there are the participants of this blog.

Renée will be heading to Guatamala to do volunteer work for her summer camp experience.