BTW, my mother would have no more allowed me to go to Aruba on a senior trip, chaperoned or not, than she would have allowed me to fly to the moon. What's with these people? And the chaperons on this trip have to be rethinking their rules.
There is NO WAY in hell that I could have gone on that when younger. The "everyone else is going" wouldn't cut either. Stupid parents make stupid kids. Chaperons? LOL! WHERE WERE THEY when this girl needed them? Drinking too?
I'm sure this will put a crimp in the local senior trips for a while, resurrecting the local destinations. What's wrong with New Orleans and Orlando anyway?
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I was wondering how these young kids and their parents could even afford a trip to Aruba. Even at a group rate, Aruba is not a cheap vacation spot. I suppose the parents and the others in this school are quite affluent.
Heck, I don't mind that they could go on "senior" trips. We didn't have that in my day and at my rather low income school district. On occasion we had field trips to some local (usually historic) attractions, but my parents usually couldn't afford even the nominal fee, so I didn't go on most of them.
And to be fair, something like this could have happened anywhere, even in the U.S. In fact, from the statistics I've read, Aruba has had maybe only a handful of murders and rapes within the last year. Compare those stats with any major U.S. city.
Quite affluent doesn't do the Brookies justice.
It's often the affluent that are the MOST naive. We prefer the historic route too. Our daughter is young and like you we are choosy on what we do. There is NO WAY In hell, affluent or not that we'd allow OUR daughter to go on one of these party binges.