Student Expectations for Travel

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by SarahBeth

...no closed doors if there are members of both sexes in a room.

Why bother? There's no better way to demonstrate that you don't trust your students' judgment than to make them feel like you're always watching.¹

Even if the rule works as intended, it's still of limited value. Firstly, it doesn't take much imagination to realize that there's all kinds of trouble they could get into with members of the same sex. Secondly, they could just close the door, and do whatever you don't want them doing—after all, once they're committed to breaking the rules, why would they let a little thing like a door get in their way?

¹ If you really need to check on them, do it with panache, and burst in on them inquisition-style.