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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were they able to hang out with their own peer group doing things more typical of their age group, or did they need to hang around doing things only younger siblings could d[b]o? [/quote]

OP. This. (The latter).[/quote]

I get it now, OP. These teenagers worked to earn this trip and then had to spend the fun part with someone else's younger children,  not with their school friends their own age.

I would address it with the school and ask for rules to be created to address this clearly in future trips. You cannot salvage your DD's bad experience after the fact, but you can model for her that when things are badly organized, people can step up to try to make things better for others who come after them.

I've seen teenagers do a lot of work and put in many hours of real effort to go on trips like the one you're describing. For any of them to have to hang around with a family rather than spend the trip with their peer group, after months and months of work, is a complete shame and waste.

I do still want to ask -- did any educational stuff go on? Were the students brought together as a peer group for the core activity, whatever it was (theater festival, marching band event, etc.) and the problem was when the kids were doing "free time" in an amusement park, for instance, and your DD and friend had to stick with this chaperone family?

I have chaperoned several trips to amusement park days held for school orchestras and bands, where there was a playing competition first thing and then the kids were with parent chaperones in the park for the rest of the day. We would never have been allowed to bring our own, other kids. Your school blew it, or maybe that one parent chaperone just flouted the rules that were in place.[/quote]

At the amusement park venues, the chaperones generally let HS kids go off and do their own thing and then have them check in with their chaperones at designated times/locations throughout the day.

I have never heard of teenagers being so carefully monitored like that by a parent chaperone.  I'm surprised that your daughter didn't at least text one of her other friends in that large group to complain about was happening with her chaperone or that a school employee wasn't aware that these kids weren't hanging out with the larger group of kids.

That sounds like a very strange situation and maybe the chaperone didn't understand their role very well.[/quote]

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