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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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, if they actually had to babysit the younger kids at some point... That would be out of line. 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]

Fair enough. I think it was also a situation where the students weren't allowed to do things they wanted to do (i.e. rides, etc) because the chaperone prioritized the younger children's preferences. [/quote]

Or did she just use the younger kids as an excuse? If both parents were there, this doesn't even make sense, since they could have split up. You need to talk to the other girl's mom and the chaperone.[/quote]

OP here. Yes, exactly. The parents could have split up and one could have taken the teens to do what they wanted to do. But the parents kept the entire family together as a large unit and the two non-family members (students) were forced to tag along and do what the family wanted to do, including rides, etc. that appealed to much younger children. I told DD she should have tried to get reassigned to a different chaperone on at least one of the days, but I don't think she really knew who to ask to make that happen.

And yes, official school-sponsored trip. [/quote]

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