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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are the administrators and teachers? Where is the oversight? Our teachers/chaperones used to be required to take turns staying up at night to ensure that everyone stayed in their rooms, no drinking/drug use/no unusual sounds, etc. We even escorted kids to the bathrooms.[/quote]

They are in tents alone. [/quote]
Wait, what? The kids have no supervision overnight? That can’t be right.[/quote]

Parents are only allowed to be in a tent with their own child, no other children. So yes, there are children only tents just like in scouts.[/quote]
If no one is supervising outside the tents, that sounds like a recipe for disaster.

I’m not an APS parent, but I saw this story. MCPS has a similar program, called Outdoor Ed, and it’s a 3 day program for 6th graders, so a 2 night stay. Parent chaperones are recruited and they must undergo and pay for fingerprinting and background checks. The facilities have large cabins with numerous bunk beds and each one has a bathroom that can accommodate several people. School staff sleep in their own cabins, while students are assigned to same sex cabins with multiple parent chaperones. The cabins have locks on the doors. Even during the daytime, students are not allowed to go anywhere alone. As a chaperone, it was my responsibility to escort students to the bathroom facilities or to the nurse during activities. At night, I slept in the bunk right next to the door. Even with all of these precautions, we heard about two kids who tried to sneak out at night.[/quote]

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