"It's been a long day kids, let's get some rest!"
As the mom of 3, and my oldest a girl, I can testify that the girl who tragically fell to her death would'nt have stayed in the safe hotel room, unless the chaperone chained her to the bed.(Ropes- no good- the girl would've bitten thru them eventually.) My kids aren't perfect- I am not perfect- but I am truly shocked and amazed at what the parents of young girls will let them wear, let them watch on tv,etc. And that is just a start- our 10 yr old neighbor girls has had 2 'boyfriends' already.
If the chaperone HAD been responsible and kept the girls safe and in their room, the parents would probably still be enemies...the girl who would've lived-but been denied fun and death- and certainly bad mouthed the chaperone, perhaps made up things to get her in trouble or cause problems.
And I know many decent, well adjusted, polite girls- it just seems there is just as many troubled girls who parents' are unwilling to do what is right. Best intentions work.
But that essentially is what a chaperone is supposed to do. My kids went on a choir trip to Texas. One of the boys tried to sneak out in the middle of night and was surprised to find the chaperone in hall, waiting for him. That's why being a chaperone is hard work and this woman saw this as a Hawaiian vacation and it seems to me didn't even do the minimum. My goodness, telling a teenager to go out without going with her and setting a curfew at 2am? That's criminally neglegent. She's lucky that she wasn't charged.
I agree. As another poster said, she’s old enough to go to Iraq.