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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think this is terribly unreasonable... until the babysitter part.

That is, I don't think it's a problem for a school chaperone to bring his/her family on the trip -- especially if his daughter was one of the students. Would you have been allowed to go on the trip if you wanted to? If so, this isn't different. Was he paid substantially extra for his time? If not, then I think it's nice he served as a chaperone at all.

Also, as the adult, whether or not his/her family was there, he was going to get to dictate what they did in any case. Like, if his family wasn't there and he said "no I'm not taking you to X Y Z movie" and/or "we have to be back at the hotel by 8 pm," would that have struck you as unreasonable... or was it just his motive?

All that said, [b]if they actually had to babysit the younger kids at some point... That would be out of line.[/b] If you just mean that they were limited in what they could do because of the young children... then I think no big deal.[/quote]

This is my question, too. Did the chaperone leave them at the hotel to watch the kids while the adults went out to dinner? That would be beyond the pale of reason. Did the chaperone expect them to play Putt-Putt with a couple of elementary-school kids while the adults sat on a bench? That's a little more gray area; the girls should not have been expected to entertain the younger girls as opposed to having teenager chats and such, but if it's the same activity they'd have been doing anyway, I'd object, but not as strenuously. Did the chaperone refuse to let them do something because of the younger children's needs or schedules that the girls would have been allowed to do without those children, such as a movie, late-night meal, bungie-jumping, etc.? That one would be hard to argue since there is no example of this particular chaperone conducting this trip differently with only teens.

I guess I'd call the parent of the other girl and see what report she got, and then if you both want to register a complaint, the adult thing to do would be to first contact the chaperone directly for an explanation and to give her an earful about your daughters' expectations and hard work. And then I'd contact the school with all the information I had and register my disappointment.[/quote]

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