Another pointless lawsuit in the works.. (taping students in for curfew)

[EricH]

Originally Posted by firstbots195

These trips are a time for students to build character values such as being responsible and following a simple curfew. If we are taped inside of hotel rooms then we learn none of these values. We will simply become lunatics at every instance we are trusted and given freedom.

Unfortunately, there are those who don't "become lunatics" when given freedom. I would say that there are teams out there that have "troublemakers" on them. These kids may not need to deliberately do stupid things to get into trouble (i.e. they just do them without thinking). Any trouble is then blamed on the group. So the tape will enable the group to figure out who caused trouble or might have done so. Are these trips a time to build character? Yes. But I can understand why tape is used; the team/group doesn't want to run the risk of "Hey, you guys did xyz, don't come back ever again" when it was one or two students that were AWOL from their rooms at night.

What one student does affects the whole team. "One bad apple spoils the barrel."

[JaneYoung]

The part of the article that caught my attention was that the student was panicked by the taping procedure, thinking about fire safety issues. I respect that.

I have yet to see a team be taped in and I asked someone to explain it to me when I started reading about it on CD. For new students traveling in a group it is not wise to assume they know about this particular type of room monitoring or chaperoning.

[thefro526]

I was on a trip at the beginning of the month where we were tape in at night. I don't remember anyone saying anything negative about it aside from, "no wild party tonight." I don't really see anything illegal out of it and anyways anytime I've seen a door taped it was taped with masking tape or painters tape so that the pain wasn't damage. Now if you're a well bodied high school student and you can't break some tape shame on you.