<p>Sounds like a good time and good learning, but (from link below):
- Looks like a non-profit feeding money to a for-profit company, founded by the “non-profit” principals. 2) Misleading as to the uniqueness of the invitation. A quote from the article: ‘The letters didn’t tell them they would be among 9,000 students attending one of 24 “special” tour weeks a year conducted by (CYLC), that it had rented their names and addresses from a national survey firm or, according to press reports, that at least two D-average students and one expelled gang member are among those so “honored.” Each year the council sends out more than 100,000 letters to students.’</p>
<p>[A</a> real close-up look - phony Washington D.C. ‘honorary’ tours for youth - No Sacred Cows | Common Cause Magazine | Find Articles at BNET](<a href=“http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1554/is_n3_v19/ai_14685572/]A”>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1554/is_n3_v19/ai_14685572/)</p>
<p>A real close-up look - phony Washington D.C. ‘honorary’ tours for youth - No Sacred Cows | Common Cause Magazine</p>
<p>We have multiple teenagers so we were able to watch the same organization slightly change their name over the years, probably to keep the what I would call “semi-scam” going.</p>