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Blackmail would be: "How much do you think your camp would be damaged by an article about what happened here?" I'm not doing that, I think we're owed some amount of a refund for sub-par performance. And if I were them I wouldn't give that to us without an NDA.
Partly I'm responding to other posts, like lapka's analysis of your EV, but you yourself questioned the amount of harm done to you. Are you looking for compensation for the hassle of meeting someone from camp and dealing with the emails or w/e? Would you look for compensation if your kid was not involved at all?
I don't really think you're entitled to anything beyond compensation for your inconvenience here. As far as motivating them to improve, I think a constructive approach of getting involved enough to see they react appropriately to protect kids in the future is at least moderately superior ethically to seeking compensation for something more than your actual costs either as a matter of punishment or some sense of this event making the camp generally inferior and worth less money. I don't mean this as an absolute rule irrespective of their failure. If the criminal syndicate is an organization of 17 year old counselors this is not the biggest surprise in the world and I think working with the camp is fine. If the camp is actually a front for organized crime getting kids hooked on speed and moved into human trafficking, then **** them every way possible.
Doing nothing or just writing a nasty email is ok too imo.
Eff the NDA and all that lawyering though. I wouldn't go around badmouthing the camp everywhere, but I wouldn't sign that unless they really paid me off good.