posted by geeblock
As a teacher this would have never happened on my watch. No adult would get close to my students and my students would have been herded away. End of story.
And as a former teacher who has chaperoned many field trips........this is exactly what I would say about the situation.
I'm having a problem with the time mentioned by the kid in his statement to the media. They were to meet the buses at 5:30. The videos show daylight. At first I was thinking AM? No, DC sunrise is around 7:30. Sunset is around 5:15. So these kids arrived early and were unchaperoned? I'm trying to wrap my head around no adult supervision for the students. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
It is unacceptable to me that as long as that video runs, I see no adult in charge. A chaperone would have saved those kids from becoming headlines for the national media to rip into.
And also: Phillips was walking from there to Arlington in the dark?
edit: I just read iclfan2's link and here's what I like about it:
"Unless other information emerges, the school's best move would be to have a conversation with the boys about the incident, perhaps discuss some strategies for remaining on perfect behavior at highly charged political rallies—where everybody is recording everything on a cell phone—and let that be the end of it.
The boys are undoubtedly owed an apology from the numerous people who joined this social media pile-on. This is shaping up to be one of the biggest major media misfires in quite some time."