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#1 If you trust the school to properly fill your child’s mind with kosher education, you trust it to fill their stomach with kosher food.
Kosher kitchens at public schools…such as the Universities or colleges have have heckshers. Here in CT The Harford Kashrut Commission supervises kosher dining at UCONN, Trinity, and Univ of Hartford. Yale is under the supervision of the Vaad HaKashrus of Fairfield County.
#2 Camps vary. There is only 1 Jewish sleep-away camp in CT. It was founded 80 years ago by the Jewish Community Council of New Haven. For decades it’s kashrut was questionable and kosher keeping Jews did not send their children there. In the early 1990s the local rabbanim insisted on a complete kashering of the camp. It’s kitchens were put under the supervision of the local Vaad and a mashgiach was sent out from New Haven every weekday to inspect and supervise cooking.
It was now kosher, but not CY.
Other camps are run by organizations and sects. If you adhere to a particular chasidic ideology, then you will trust the kitchen at their camp, just as you would eat from their shuls’ kitchen. The administration of the camp takes responsibility of the kashrut.
If the camp is privately owned and run (for profit) then it absoluteky needs a hecksher same as a hotel or restaurant.