All I can say is WTF?
This woman from Milbury needs to get a life. Here is a link to the article. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/959389,ducttape052008.article This was hotlinked from FARK. Long story short - Snowflake goes on field trip to Chicago. Chaperone duct tapes the hotel door. Snowflake freaks. Mom wants to sue. Again, WTF ?as I slap my forehead and sadly shake my head.
Attending a small school and marked as a wussy for the rest of his career.
I guess the idea of turning the handle and just PULLING REAL HARD didnt occur to him.... But then whine to Mommy about it???
He's gonna go thru commencement sportin' purple nurples...
Filing charges is ridiculous. Let's get that out of the way. The kid hasn't been scarred for life by being taped in his room.
Having said that, there are people, including several adults I know, who suffer from panic attacks from being confined in a limited space. To some, it may be an elavator or airplane. To others, it might be a hotel room, if it's small enough.
This same scenario took place with my daughter when she and her class went on an out-of-town trip for band. They were 'locked' in their rooms at night, with all the right intentions. It wasn't a problem for my daughter. But I believe it was all spelled out on the permission slip parents had to sign allowing their kids to make the trip, so if there were kids who had 'confinement' issues, they were at least alerted that was going to be the procedure at night.
Basically I'm saying this may not be just a matter of being a 'wussy.'
Makes you wonder how he knew the tape was there. If he was asleep in his room like he should have been then he wouldn't have even known about it.
Was he sneaking out and got busted by the tape?
I read the posted article, then the comments that followed.
From the news last night, I questioned how one piece of tape could keep a kid from opening the door - after reading one of the comments, it all makes sense now!!
The tape wasnt meant to keep (nor COULD it keep) the kids in their rooms. It was only meant to be a sign for the chaperones that the little darlings had gotten out! See, when you turn knob and easily open the door, the tape will pull away, but when you go back into your room, there's no way to get that tape back in place - so now they know you've been out.
Again - and try this at home if you dont believe me, there is no way in hell using the whole damn door as a fulcrum that one piece of duct tape would keep anyone in a room. It was just a signal.
My first analogy holds - the kid's a wuss and told his mommy they taped him in. Mommy's taking the ball and running with it, and in doing so, is doing all sorts of negative things to the kid.
Right. It didn't occur to me until I read Billy's post (thanks Billy). There's nothing on the door to attach the tape to such that it couldn't be pulled loose. So, who's been out running around? Not my little Jimmy!
Someone has got to have a talk with this loony tunes Mom about kids and what they'll do as soon as they're left alone.
MILLBURY, Ohio -- Ohio parents are complaining to a school board that a chaperone sealed students in their hotel rooms with duct tape during a high school choir field trip to Chicago.
At a heated meeting Monday, Michelle Mata told the Lake Local school board in Millbury that the tactic panicked her son during a recent weekend trip.
Sylvia Keeler says she may file charges. Her son, Mark Hummel, says he worried he could be trapped in his room during a fire.
The story says they were sealed in their room and evidently there's more than one 'wuss.'
It might have been a prudent thing for Lake officials to give the kids (and parents) a heads-up they were doing this beforehand. Of course, maybe it will come out that they did just that and the parents are making a mountain out of a molehill.
evidently there's more than one 'wuss.'
So be it - purple nurple's and red belly's all around. No one was 'sealed' in.
I'm sure the parent had to sign a permission slip before the child went on an overnight field trip. The school probably should have had some sort of disclaimer on the permission slip to avoid any incident like this. Anyone know if that happened?
We did before my daughter went on her trip. Whether there was anything regarding a 'taping' of doors on it I don't remember.
As I said earlier, my daughter says they were 'locked' in their rooms. Maybe it was really just a strip of tape. Either way, was no sweat for us.
Could you contact your daughter and have her elaborate on that?
I travel for business all the time, which means Ive seen the inside of my fair share of hotel rooms, and for the life of me I cannot see how someone could be locked IN to one of those rooms without the installation of some hardware, and frankly - I just dont see a hotel allowing that.
And back to the tape issue. Seriously, if you could duct tape a door shut with one piece of tape, would not every big brother have been doing this to every little brother on the planet since the invention of duct tape??
On a little more scary thought, wouldnt you hear of home invaders just stretching a piece of tape over the homeowners' bedroom doors and then proceeding to rob them silly?
You cant do it!!
Sure, I'll ask when she gets home from school tomorrow. Kinda curious now myself.
Princess is in bed now and needs her beauty sleep, LOL.
and she said it was indeed a strip of tape; sounds like the Lake incident based on story (and picture) in today's paper. It was interesting to read other school districts locally say they woudn't have done it that way but it appears to be common enough practice for many of them.
Maybe if Natalee Holloways chaparone had been as diligent she wouldn't have gone missing.
Maybe the kids mother should be thankful that the people she entrusted her childs well being too were actually doing the job.
this is the lamest thing I have heard some time.
Here are some actual warning labels, mind you most of these are made because of lawsuits and because there are people out there dumb enough not to realize the obvious:
Not to be used as protection from a tornado.
Caution -- Risk of Fire.
Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.
This product not intended for use as a dental drill.
Caution: The contents of this bottle should not be fed to fish.
Do not use in shower.
Product will be hot after heating.
For indoor or outdoor use only.
Warning: Contains nuts.
Instructions - open packet, eat nuts.
Serving suggestion: defrost.
Fits one head.
Warning: May cause drowsiness.
Do not eat toner.
Not for highway use.
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- Just the KAT, thinking out loud again.
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and
five times out of nine I'll show you an exceptional man." -Charles
Bukowski
what the chaperone to student ratio was. A few years ago I was a chaperone for a B.S. troop when we visited Chicago. We had a rule that 1 adult per 5 kids had to be available which allowed us to staff at least one adult in almost every motel room. Those rooms which we could not staff had tape place on the doors after lights-out was called. Now I know these kids were a bit younger then those from Lake High School but I think the Chaperone count needs to be adequet no matter what.
BTW, all parents knew that we would be taping the doors at night as a monitoring tool and it was readily expressed in the release which they signed.
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- Just the KAT, thinking out loud again.
on our class trip, but when the rest of the class did, their doors were taped. I guess we were not babies and did not complain.