[Billthedrill]

Yeah, what were all those brats doing on a gambling bus anyway?

Kidding. Let's run this one down - an unsanctioned, three-day interstate trip at $250 a mark - er, "student" - the chaperones desert, park the kids at a casino, gamble, and the upshot is that only one of three colleges were visited. Breathtaking. I'm thinking Principal Herlena Leggins has some 'splainin' to do...

[willieroe]

Correction - a six-day trip at $250 per student.

[JLS]

A couple of things about this:

1. The district either should say such noneducational trip can or can not be sold to kids by employees.

2. I suspect the market will take care of this particular trip saleperson anyway. I seriously doubt that many buy this trip in the furture at $250 per college visited.

3. Tort law may well take care of the fraud aspect too. It is a very small "class" that could easily get together and sue the organizers etc. Given that they made time for the gambling stop but missed two-thirds of the college stops..... This non lawyer would guess they could win pretty easily. [Even if they stopped late at night, you can tour a college campus in your bus late at night even if you missed the dog and pony show admission was putting on for you during regular hours.]

4. Leaving kids in a likely air conditioned bus that also likely has some video equipment and monitors every few rows is not like leaving two year olds in a hot car. And given the videos they watch with chaperones on, I doubt there was anything worse they watched when the chaperones were off gambling.