Not eveyone gets a happy ending, doesn't mean you bubble wrap your kids. What so many parents forget is kids learn to navigate these hardships by getting out there. Many of you sound so basic and lame.

This won't be my kid's first solo road trip. He drove to New York state for a college visit last summer when I couldn't go. I trust him.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid isn't doing beach week this year. Instead he and a few other kids are getting a rental van and going on a week long road trip. I'm not even 100% certain where they are going. Pretty sure they are going to some baseball games. Sounded like an incredible experience so I put it on my card.

A road trip is WAY more dangerous. But you do you. When my kid was a teen at Walter Johnson, 4 seniors died at the end of the school year when their vehicle crashed in West Virginia.

Two of the four who were in the car died. It was incredibly sad. But they were driving to a house they rented in West Virginia just like kids who go to beach week drive to their beach destination.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid isn't doing beach week this year. Instead he and a few other kids are getting a rental van and going on a week long road trip. I'm not even 100% certain where they are going. Pretty sure they are going to some baseball games. Sounded like an incredible experience so I put it on my card.

A road trip is WAY more dangerous. But you do you. When my kid was a teen at Walter Johnson, 4 seniors died at the end of the school year when their vehicle crashed in West Virginia.

Wow. This sounds far worse than being in one house all week. Some of these kids drive 100 miles an hour. Who knows if they will be under the influence too.

Anonymous wrote:My kid isn't doing beach week this year. Instead he and a few other kids are getting a rental van and going on a week long road trip. I'm not even 100% certain where they are going. Pretty sure they are going to some baseball games. Sounded like an incredible experience so I put it on my card.

A road trip is WAY more dangerous. But you do you. When my kid was a teen at Walter Johnson, 4 seniors died at the end of the school year when their vehicle crashed in West Virginia.

My kid isn't doing beach week this year. Instead he and a few other kids are getting a rental van and going on a week long road trip. I'm not even 100% certain where they are going. Pretty sure they are going to some baseball games. Sounded like an incredible experience so I put it on my card.

Beach week is so plain. Don't most families go to the beach from the DMV area each year and several times a year or have a beach property they go on any weekend? So overrated and boring.

Anonymous wrote:A pair of teens ("adult" age) were arrested following an altercation with Dewey Beach police in the early morning hours of May 28.

I wonder if their drunken racist comments cost them admission to college. The one was committed to play football at one of the service academies.

This happens every year though… last year a kid got detained for an open container but had a pocketknife on him and was charged with a misdemeanor. A year or two before that a few kids were drunk and fighting, one of them nearly lost his nrotc offer.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all! The op was posting in 2023, her kid is a sophomore in college at this point.

So? Parents have the same debate every year. Might as well continue the existing thread.

As was posted on another forum on this site, these "kids" are adults by law --18. They can go if they want unless a rental property requires someone older to sign. Many of the students go to one of their own family's beach property with friends.

Or chip in for a hotel

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all! The op was posting in 2023, her kid is a sophomore in college at this point.

So? Parents have the same debate every year. Might as well continue the existing thread.

As was posted on another forum on this site, these "kids" are adults by law --18. They can go if they want unless a rental property requires someone older to sign. Many of the students go to one of their own family's beach property with friends.

Anonymous wrote:Y’all! The op was posting in 2023, her kid is a sophomore in college at this point.

So? Parents have the same debate every year. Might as well continue the existing thread.

Y’all! The op was posting in 2023, her kid is a sophomore in college at this point.

I don't know, OP. My friend booked such a place for her kid and a group of girls. The parents all contributed to the rental. I believe two of the parents took turns to chaperone that week, in the house.

I think it really depends on the group of kids. We hate the beach, so beach is not happening. But Deep Creek? Maybe. My high schooler and her friends are nerdy, rule-following kids who don't drink or use substances (and indeed, I have a college kid who doesn't drink or use substances). I could see renting a house by the lake or something and chaperoning.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you the same parent asking about ski week? These questions really are better posed to the BCC list serve if you want to get actual information and answers.

OP here:
No, I’m not. I was hoping that by posting here I’d reach more parents with older kids who have done this in the past, as well as get insight from parents of kids at other MCPS schools as to if they’d booked yet.

You are an idiot to consider booking

Your kid is going to college and liability alone stupidly

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Anonymous wrote:A pair of teens ("adult" age) were arrested following an altercation with Dewey Beach police in the early morning hours of May 28.

From B-CC specifically?

No. Google it