Though I don't agree with every aspect of your plan, I respect your reasons for following it. Allow me to make a couple of modifications as to how I would respond if I was a student in this situation.
Before I even go into specifics, I suggest you have (if you haven't arranged one already, you seem very prepared) a meeting to cover this all in detail. Even if students signed a contract, they may "forget" at this point.
I. Bus curfew / gender separation
Make sure this is understood beforehand to avoid conflicts. Choose a policy and stick with it. Instead of saying "we're going to have to all move around at dark" try and word it like this:
"OK, everyone, we'll have a pit stop before dark, and when we get back on the bus please sit "such-and-such"." That way, everyone leaves the bus, and they get back on and have to choose a new spot. It's a more concrete change than trying to move everybody at some arbitrary point. You avoid excuses like "it's not dark yet!" (I have heard this one, trust me) in favor of being able to say that "we agreed to move after the 9 o'clock pit stop".
A female and male section is probably unnecessary. You as a mentor know who your trouble makers are - most students won't really misbehave, they'll just want to sleep or chat casually.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
Howdy all and NEMO types,
I'd appreciate some suggestions in regards to curfew and such for 18 hour bus rides. This year's trip to Atlanta will be via bus and will be 18 hours in transit. My thoughts are to treat it like a hotel situation and have a 'curfew' at XX:xx PM with seat checks. At curfew each set of seats will be same sex. I'm even thinking that I need to section off the bus a bit and have a female and male section???
What kinds of meals do you typically serve en route? We are leaving @ 7:00 PM so I am asking students to have eaten dinner before boarding and then having snacks for them in the evening. My plan is to then have breakfast items for the AM, Sam's club stuff. We would then stop at a pizza buffet somewhere for lunch and then do dinner in Atlanta.
Besides having a collection of G and PG movies, do you provide any other type of entertainment/amusement? Are there standard bus games that teams play?
Any comments and suggestions are more than appreciated,
Thanks,
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