Scrubbing the story seems to be causing more of an uproar rather than the actual vacation.
She's 13 and running off the Mexico with friends and no parents. How'd ya like that Secret Service job?
There are parents on the trip. The public just doesn't know who. For all WE (the public) knows, Michelle's mother is along on the trip.
I was a homeroom mother for my kids all through elementary and middle school. Here, when the kids go on a local field trip, it's req'd that there be 1 parent for every 4-5 kids on the trip.
Both my kids went on a trip at the end of 8th grade to NYC for 5 days. The kids in each grade were divided into pods. The middle school was divided into pod sections. Each "pod" has 2 entrances from the main hallway into a large anteroom that held the kids lockers, 4 classrooms and a teachers office. Both my kids were in the same pod for 8th grade (yes, I did make sure that they were in that particular pod
) At the end of the school year, the week AFTER school ended, if the kids had had good conduct the entire year (it was on a point system) the kid could go on the trip. The teachers required 1 parent for every 3 kids, and that parent slept in the same room with the kids to make sure the kids stayed in their rooms at night, and that no one wandered off. Doing this also took some of the liability off of the teachers.
I would not be surprised at all to find out, that there is one parent for each kid, if not a parent then someone the parent trusts. After all, the US government is picking up the tab for their protection! If we were having a normal March, the weather would be crappy in DC this time of year. Who wouldn't like a trip to a nice warm sunny place in Mexico, to stay at some swanky place? (there is no way they are in even a 3*** place. these are rich kids! )
