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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Was one of the chaperones a teacher or just a parent who volunteered[/b]?  I think that changes my answer.

If a teacher, then absolutely it needs to be brought to the attention of the principal that the teacher brought their other family members on the trip.

If just a parent volunteer, I don't know if the school has any recourse.

I know when I was in HS and went to Paris over the summer with my French teacher and classmates, she told us how she'd been to Paris 18 times, but only once with her husband before they were married because spouses were not permitted to travel on school trips.  [/quote]

I agree with this post -- OP, please come back and clarify for us so we can better help.

Was this a teacher?

Was the teacher being paid to take this trip? Some teachers work during spring breaks and summers as chaperones/guides for student group tours to various places and get paid for it. If that were the case I'd be calling the company that arranged it or the school office that approved it and asking for our money back. But I'm just not clear how only three students going to a US destination that's a big tourist spot is the same as when my friend who is a HS teacher organizes, leads and is responsible for much larger groups for a week in Italy etc.  It would help to understand.

Even if this were a teacher on his or her own time, or a parent who volunteered to take two teens who weren't his or her own -- the use of the non-related kids as babysitters would ALONE be a huge problem for me.

What was promised before the trip? Was there a written itinerary and did the teens achieve all the items on it? Did they get the educational part done, or did that not happen due to the vacation for the family members? Was there any written information about this whole thing? If so, that gives you something to use -- sit down with your teen (and preferably with the parents of the other non-family teen and that teen too )and go through what the trip was supposed to achieve and what actually got done or seen. Could give you a starting point to say this was a sham.

This does sound like a strange arrangement, compared to other things I would refer to as "school trips." [/quote]

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