Posted on 06/11/2005 11:05:50 AM PDT by kcvl
That's a very good point. When my girlfriends and I used to be out and about (before most of them got married), we rarely left each other, and, if we did, it was usually a guy we were dating that we happened to run into. We always told the others if we were leaving, with whom, and where we were going.
Fox just now reported DNA testing was done on some blood that was found. No other details.
But you're right about the chaperones! Why bother at all if they're not going to chaperone the kids?
They were misnamed as chaperones, so everyone says. Never were meant to do any of the things you suggest, apparently, but were there just to be helpful in case the graduates asked for help with anything.
I haven't been watching all day---but this morning, I got the same impression as you...
Leave it to Geraldo to go down there, and start saying she might not even be dead...he is the conspiracty theory master...LOL
At least they got him out of Neverland, holding the hand of Michael Jackson!!!!
And if tox results show she was slipped something would getting in a car with 3 men still be "bad judgement?"
Of course, bad judgement comes into play, but she is not dead because of her bad judgement. She is dead because she was murdered by persons yet to be named.
My parents taught me many things growing up. I did not always listen. I am not absolving her from any bad judgement, but that is a far cry from saying she is to blame for what happened to her.
Damn, I wanted one of those kids out there who listen to every single words spoken by their parents, never test the limits, and never do anything stupid.
BTW, I taught all of my kids that drugs are bad. I do not do drugs and drink only socially, don't get drunk 'cause I hate the hangover. My middle son is (so far so good) battling a meth addiction. It is not because I neglected him. It is not because I wanted to be his buddy. It is not because of any example I set. It is not because I did not set limits. It is not because I looked the other way. In fact, his former drug "friends" know I will call the cops in a heartbeat. I have. (They all think I am crazy) But it happened. And I will bear none of the blame except maybe taking a while to realize I could not make him stop using. That had to come from him.
It is an extreme example, but I know more than I want about kids straying in spite of "doing everything right."
One of the strangest parts of this story, IMO, is that none of her girlfriends or classmates have come forward to say anything to the media. Usually, there are a few kids who want to get on t.v. Evidently they've been asked to stay quiet while the investigation is going on and they're doing their part by staying silent. But I wouldn't necessarily believe some of her friends were in the restroom with her.
Based on the "good girl" reputation Natalee had, I definitely think that Dutch kid used a ruse to get her into the car. Plus, she'd been around him for a couple of days and probably felt like she knew him. He probably bragged about his dad being a magistrate on the island, etc.
Windmilling is something you teach a three or four year old. That's when lessons in self-defense and survival should start.
If there's even a question of leaving a bar drunk with a couple of strange boys as a teenager, then the lessons haven't sunk in.
Hubby & I were just discussing the same thing.
Apparently, she wanted to be w/that one boy and after the classmates & chaperones turned in for the night, she slipped out and met the boy and his mates.
Her passport, handbag, id, et al were in her room and her bags were packed to go home the next day. (Shades of Chandra Levy and her disappearance.)
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Sometimes the kids with the highest grades have the least common sense. Adults, too.
There's more compassion for the unborn than for the living on these boards.
I am tending to lean the way you are--the chaperones are libel for those kids from the time they left Alabama until they return to their PARENTS in Alabama...
Even if she had disappeared after landing back in US..the chaperones should be responsible...
If they didn't want that kind of responsiblity, they should have not volunteered...
This should just take a minute.
Chaperones--apparently they should call them what they were: useless.
Thanks. That tells me what I need to pass along for now.
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