Exclusive | Meet the rich kids of summer who fly private planes to $20K+ sleepaway camps for elite friendships and life-building skills

For Rachael Braunschweiger Potash, stripping her kids of their digital devices for seven weeks each summer is no cheap feat. In fact, it’s a $40,000-plus investment.But to be able to gift her children a summer filled with outdoor activities and lifelong friendships the astronomical cost is worth it.Another priceless benefit — the influential networks of parents and alumni that can open doors for their kids for internships and job opportunities down the road.After months of planning, packing and spending nearly the equivalent of a year of private school fees, the 46-year-old Potash and her daughters, 13 and 15, will bid farewell to the comforts of their beautiful abode in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Big Apple this week. Potash will then escort her brood to Westchester, where they’ll join friends aboard a private plane headed to Camp Vega, a girls-only summer oasis on Echo Lake in Fayette, Maine. It’s a first-class treat — that adds another few thousand dollars to the cost — that Potash, along with a small group of camp parents, decided to gift their girls this year. And while the extravagant excursion isn’t built into the roughly $20,000 per child camp tuition fee, it is one of the many posh perks afforded to the lucky little ones whose folks can afford to send them to swanky sleepaways — including some with annual dues exceeding $150,000. “My kids absolutely love going to camp every year.

They get to enjoy all these new experiences outdoors, there are no phones, screens or ways to access social media,” Potash, a lifestyle influencer, exclusively told The Post.“There’s no worrying about what to post, their hair, makeup or new TikTok dances, and that’s the No.

1 best thing.”“Money comes and goes,” said the mom, “but if you’re going to spend your money, summer camp is one of the things you spend it on.”Potash isn’t alone.The parents of a whopping 24.6 million tots, tweens and teens across the US want their kids to exp...