This doesn't pass the sniff test to me. A child is well enough that she can spend at least 4+ hours in the parks between "vomiting events" and then at 7pm all of a sudden is too sick to back with her team till 10pm and needs to leave with her mother. It is not like this illness came on suddenly. I would think the OP would have had a very different answer if she had told the school after the first vomiting episode in the morning that her daughter was sick and they were staying in at their hotel. Instead, they spend the day at the parks while the child is sick.So, my daughter's dance team is at DW as they competed in Nationals this past weekend. Yesterday, my daughter woke up sick, throwing up. I am also on property, but staying in a different resort. Kids were allowed a park day and dd said she felt better and wanted to go to Magic Kingdom with me. We went and stayed a couple of hours until she started feeling bad again. We left the park and went to my room at another resort on the property. She took a nap and said she wanted to try the park again. We did and the same thing happened (sick). Around 7:00 pm, DD sent a text to her coaches and asked if she could leave with me, her mother, and I sign her out from the trip. She was told no. I then texted coach. I was told no, that is was school policy she stay with the team, but she could stay with me or I was welcome to stay with her until 10:00pm. Unfortunately, I returned the rental car and staying in a room together was not an option. Our only option was to stay in the park and wait until a group the proper size (4) or an adult was going back to DD's resort. Finally, a couple of hours later, a dance mom was able to take DD back to her resort. I find it unacceptable that my daughter was made to sit, feeling extremely bad, and wait at a crowded theme park instead of being able to be in the care of her mother in a quiet hotel room. This meant she went back to a tiny room with four girls, slept in a small bed with someone, and risked getting them all sick. Not only that, but when someone is sick, laying in bed with someone they are not totally comfortable with is not something they'd like to do, especially when there is the option of being with their parent and sleeping in a bed of their own.
I have requested the school policy on this and will not allow my child to travel with the school in the future if I find the policy unacceptable.
Disclaimer: I'm a teacher, different district and this is my third child so I'm not new to all the politics surrounding this kind of mess.
While I think it outrageous that a truly sick child would not be released to their parents, I also have a hard time believing that the school would not release a truly sick child to their parents. I think there is way more to this story than the OP is presenting.
My Disclamer: I am coming from a very jaded perspective of being on the other side. On our team, Parents are given very strict rules very early in the season about when they can leave. I have heard every imaginable excuse and frankly some big lies from our parents who have scheduled different flights home or different arrangements than what was told to them very early in the season. Not saying this is what happened, but the perspective I am looking at this from.
If I were on the other side and a parent called me and said Suzy was vomiting all day, but we were at the parks all day, but she needs to be signed out early, I might also have said "no, if she was well enough to go on rides, she is well enough to spend the last few hours with her team." By that time, I would also have heard from numerous other parents about the offending parent's travel schedule and how they were trying to scam me. Again, not saying this is what happened, but it happens enough to make me question the real reason the coaches would not allow the girl to sign out early. And OP does say the rental car has already been returned 3 hours before the official release time. Why, if she knew her daughter was not to be released till 10? Why could Mom not go back to All Stars to watch over the daughter as invited by the coaches? Why was this not an option? Being a jaded coach, way, way too many inconsistencies with the story.
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