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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. They actually don't have legal guardians as none of the participants have intellectual disabilities.[/quote]

How would you know?[/quote]

OP, you don't actually know that none of the participants don't have intellectual disabilities, nor do you know who actually has a legal guardian or not.

Your beef is that on some field trip as a group, some random girl/woman had a petition, that the leader of the group did not allow them to sign.  Having functional ability doesn't rule out intellectual disabilities.  Nor does living on your own rule out guardianship.

Preschool kids who were on a field trip and siphoned off to sit for a political presentation by Carly Fiorina was exploitative, underhanded, and a violation of informed consent.

In the same vein, it's not convenient nor ethical--not to mention a huge violation of privacy for a chaperone to identify adults participating in a sponsored field trip without guardianship or IDs just so they can decide to sign a petition or not.  There is also no way that a chaperone could ensure informed consent of those who decide to sign.

Parents of these adults have obviously entered into an agreement with the organization that their adult child participate in these field trips.  The chaperone made the right judgement call, which was perfectly legal.  These disabled adults were there to enjoy whatever it was--park, museum, restaurant whatever.

Also, "infantilization" is not a term used in many SN circles, so my guess is that you were the person with the petition and weirdly stewing over this.  Let it go.[/quote]

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