notthatmom
Proud Parent
Nope, we never did. We had science camp in 6th grade where we had high school students of the same gender in the room with us as counselors.Don't you guys have 2-3 day school field trips in 3rd or 4th grade when kids are just 8-10 years old?
In my country we do, and children stay overnight, usually in rooms of 4, while the teachers stay in different rooms.
So to me, the fact that they had the girls stay in a hotel without a chaperone in the room, is not weird at all.
In Nassar's case, no amount of safeguarding could have probably prevented the abuse. Remember - he abused one of his victims while her mother was in the room. And as far as I remember, he did not have much prior access to her before.
Of course - listing him as a person to call in a case of emergency by a minor female is just weird and very inappropriate.....and, as we now know, naive.
I traveled with my high school, and my ice skating team but I was much older, we had chaperones, and teachers/other students were not allowed in our rooms.
When traveling with my team, no male coaches or parents were even allowed to travel with us or stay at the same hotel.