I agree with your lesson from this story. I just got my last kid out of high school, and you Freepers should know that these Spring Break and Grad Week vacation scams are very big business and dangerous.
First month of senior year the schools ( even the Catholic ones) allow these creeps to push these "destination" events on the kids, taking deposits... most cost well over a grand. I looked at the colorful brochures, then researched online to see what they truly were... it's actually a giant Girls Gone Wild party with leering locals and binge drinking.
Do not let your kids attend these things. They exist at Mexico and Caribbean resorts, even Hawaii, and the ones in the third world are especially lawless. If you want your 17 year girl engaged in group sex, lesbian kissing displays, pot and alcohol binging with complete strangers and leering local criminals, by all means send them along. I passed.
A voice of reason....
I heard earlier in reports that there was some hip/hop artists and concerts while they were attending this five day excursion and I immediately thought that that is exactly what this whole trip was....
A girls gone wild episode with Aruba as its next port of call.