[EvanG]

People have already said my main points, so ill just summarize how it works with our team.

For mentors to strictly enforce a curfew- doesn't look like they're trying to protect the students interests from the students perspective. It looks like they're trying to stranglehold them. So that leads students to want to break the rules in the first place.

On our team there's a generally high degree of trust. We tell our mentor where we are interested in going, when we expect to be back, and we call him if we can't make it in time. We never travel alone and we watch out for each other. In the end, we make sure we're back at a reasonable time such as 11, because that way, we can reward ourselves by playing halo on the huge projector that our mentors let us keep in our room.

Putting the tape on the door just creates grounds to breed resentment. On our team, students would go between different team members rooms and just chat for a bit, or they'd come to our room to watch movies on the projector. Locking them in their room would definately cause a lot of boredom, and boredom means thrill seeking...

Of course, if your team has trouble makers, curfews can work. But if you have any respect/trust for the students on your team, they're high schoolers and can for the most part, look out for their own/each others interests.