Karen Gan
1/5
I am a parent who registered for the Rocket Science summer camp for my son together with a friend for the week Jul 30 - Aug 3 2018. The camp was located at Vieja Valley School. I was excited to hear my son coming back with excitement after the first day of the camp. Instead he came back frustrated and both him and his friend felt they have wasted the entire day playing a computer game (they call it Kerbal Space) just punching keys to shoot down rockets. 4 hours of doing that and maybe another 30 minutes of something different with 2 hours of break time. When I communicated with the Camp Director, Onolee Zwicke, she advised me to be patient and give him time to enjoy the camp. The second day of camp was short lived. My son (and his friend) called me to pick them up as they were totally uncomfortable to remain in the camp. Ms Zwicke didn't seemed to empathise with the boys but chastised them for not telling the teacher their concern (which the boys did) before calling me to pick them up. The boys didn't understand what they were supposed to do and were using soldering guns with only one glove and got their fingers burnt. Our boys are sensible intellectual kids who have attended many camps in the past. They enjoy learning and was not getting that from this camp. They had never called to ask to be picked up at the early part of a camp and have always finished a camp. We never had a bad experience like this camp. To top it all, Ms Zwicke intimidated my boys attempting to make them feel they are in the wrong and told me that she will not refund our money ($620).
