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

[DonRotolo]

Well, it's not a lawsuit yet.

I have a feeling the kid and his parent misunderstood the quantity of tape being applied. An entire roll of good duct tape, carefully applied, might slow a hotel room door from opening in 130 milliseconds to, say, 480 mS, but surely the chaperones used a small strip (who has the time to really tape a whole door shut).

Now, if they had welded the door shut, I'd agree with the safety hazard. The hotel might frown upon that practice however.

Chapersones do need to account for some kids being more sensitive. We had a student one year who literally collapsed into tears when a man with dark skin walked towards him in the hallway. This poor businessman was just going to his room, and the kid had led an insulated life, and had never been within touching distance from someone who was not caucasian. It all ended well, but some time had to be spent calming him down. He is quite normal today, by the way.

So, all that had to happen was a statement form the chaperones: "We are putting a small strip of tape on your door, which will get unstuck if the door is opened. That's how we'll know if the door opened after curfew."


Don

PS:
Little did the chaperones know, but the astute student had learned how to re-stick the tape from inside the room...