Pierce College Tennis Camp

Babysitting with tennis rackets. I was told that this camp comes no where near to filling up in the summer – and I should have realized the significance of this, because the lines for Pierce swim lessons begin to form before they open on the first day of registration.
Basically what the camp amounts to is a few college guys hitting balls to long lines of kids, who run up and hit the ball then go to the back of the line to wait again. I watched them in action on four different days and I never heard a camp counselor give a word of instruction or advice to the children hitting the balls. It is a shame because the kids in this camp were ALL beginners who, if they are to have tennis careers later, will have to unlearn the poor form they have taught themselves in this camp.
The campers don’t play matches against each other, and I saw the counselors do a couple of things that were really disappointing considering the high kid-​to-​instructor ratio. One was texting while his friend hit balls to the kids. Another time I saw two of the instructors hit a few balls back and forth to each other at the end of the day and then tell one of the kids to run and get a ball that had gotten away from them.
The kids are kept safe, there is swimming mid-​day, and the meals are free; but otherwise there is no value in sending your child to this camp – unless you need a babysitter for the day and don’t believe your kids will want to play «real» tennis later in life.
At the very least the camp should be characterized as being for beginners not serious players in the school catalog.