I was always so annoyed when I was a kid when we’d get together with my cousins on chol hamoed and in the summer and it would be us kids and my mom (whenever she didn’t have work) with my cousins and their whole families. I was always like, I wish MY parents were teachers…
However, as the proud niece and/or cousin of, at last count, 7 mechanchim/os, I’ll be the last one to say that they have the easy life. They work their HEADS off.
I do think, though, that kids need time off. If they shaved off a week I don’t think it’ll be a crime (then again, I’m almost finished with my Jewish K-12 education, so whatever you do now can’t really hurt me anymore), but kids do need time to figure themselves out and live without the school framework for a bit. It might be less of a big deal at younger ages. And as much as I hate to say it, as the biggest camp-loather you will ever meet, there is something to having a camp experience.