<p>Seems extreme, but…</p>
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<p>From the reports I read yesterday, if accurate, it didn’t sound extreme to me, at all. Why should passengers have to be asked repeatedly to take their seats and turn off their cellphones? And for them not to do so, even after the captain has to come on and tell them? Really? These are high school seniors not 8 year olds.</p>
<p>Since the plane only holds 137 passengers, removing 100 students & their chaperones must have made for increased elbow room!</p>
<p>Both my kids took trips senior year- one hiked through the Canyonlands, the other brought refurbished computers to a village in Ghana.
Neither one was in a group that large though,more closer to 35 - with chaperones & the trip to Colorado was pre 9/11 so we could see her board. The group was both juniors & seniors & many were " fairly exuberant". Their co- passengers looked apprehensive ( to put it mildly);)</p>
<p>Perhaps it should have been split up and had a few more chaperones- who could have collected the cell phones instead of making the flight attendants be the bad guys.</p>
<p>I think the airline was justified. People forget that air travel can be dangerous and rules are in place for the safety of passengers, not necessarily for their convenience. And as for the one student who claimed that they were targeted because they are Jewish - Oh, pul-ease! If anything, they were probably given more chances to behave since they were from a religious school.</p>
<p>Seriously? The Jewish card? How about sit down and follow the rules like all the other passengers.</p>
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<p>They shouldn’t have been behaving badly at all…of course, that begs the question of what the (so-called) chaperones were doing at this time.</p>
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<p>Sure, not all 100 of the students were acting like brats, but enough of them were to justify kicking off the whole group. It would have been ridiculous for the airline to hold up the plane and the other passengers just to figure out exactly which students were behaving properly and which weren’t. They boarded as a group and were kicked off as a group.</p>
<p>The parents and school should use this as a teaching moment rather than blame the airline company. Admit wrongdoing, take responsibility, don’t place blame where it doesn’t belong, and teach the students that there are consequences to behavior.</p>
<p>The pilot is responsible for the safety of the passengers. If these students couldn’t sit down and turn off their cell phones for take-off, the pilot not only cannot take off safely, but he/she cannot be certain these passengers would follow any other instructions during the flight. Easy call.</p>
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which means they were behaving badly, and this adult was just commenting on the scale of the bad behavior. The problem is that it’s not up to the adults to determine what is safe bad behavior vs what is unsafe bad behavior.</p>
<p>And speaking of chaperones, where the heck were they?</p>
<p>Agreed^^^I probably would have clapped when they deplaned because they were infringing on my rights to expect a safe and timely departure. Too much political correctness! There should be backlash against the students being disruptive as well as the chaperones.</p>
<p>Every single one of these kids should be grounded by their parents for a night or two for misbehaving and causing a scene.</p>
<p>This is how we end up with idiots in the world. </p>
<p>My kid travelled for soccer for years on airplanes with her team. If a kid misbehaved, they weren’t allowed to come on the tournament. It’s ridiculous that instead of teaching the 100 kids proper travel safety we are now supposed to “blame” the pilot and the flight attendants for doing their job.</p>
<p>Anyone remember Alec Baldwin being thrown off a flight because he wouldn’t turn off his cell phone? </p>
<p>Maybe the kids thought they could get away with it because there were so many of them.</p>
<p>The fact that they were Jewish is neither here nor there. Good for the airline for following their rules. The kids learned an impt. lesson… bad behavior has consequences.</p>
<p>Personally I think the flight attendant and/or pilot needed to tell the chaperones to rein the students in or else get kicked off. I like to see a warning issued first. The only criticism I would have as a parent, is why not single out the kids who were out of their seats and noncompliant with their phones. Although I realize it may have been hard to do this. They were ultimately separated and sent on different flights, so it wasn’t a matter off keeping them all together. It certainly sent a message to groups of kids traveling and hopefully to the adult chaperones.</p>
<p>Instead of crying discrimination for being Jewish they should have asked themselves if they were conducting themselves as members of society. There are rules that are in place for a reason and it is not subjective for every group in society. Now if there is discrimination that’s another issue but this sure sounds like sour grapes.</p>
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<p>Oh, puhleeze. It’s a federal safety law. </p>
<p>A warning is not needed; moreover, the so-called parent chaperones even admitted that the kids were behaving ‘badly’.</p>
<p>S2 went on a DC trip to the inauguration. We had to sign a slip that said he could be sent home for ANY discipline issue at our expense. No bad behavior occurred.</p>
<p>I get a sense that the flight crew asked them a couple of times, and the captain made an announcement. The kids in back were ignoring it, swapping seats and still using their phones. Chaperones were up front (and only a couple of them with that large group). So they got booted. I don’t blame the airline at all. CNN had an interview with a business traveler on the plane who said the kids had plenty of chances and the chaperones were sitting together in the front and not helping.</p>
<p>When S went on any trips with school we always had to sign that he could be sent home at any time for any reason. He and peers were always very well behaved.</p>
<p>The “chaperones” were sitting together, away from the kids? Inexcusable. It doesn’t matter how many chaperones you have if they aren’t paying attention.</p>
<p>Reading the different accounts, I get a sense that the kids were so engrossed in seat swapping and their phones that they ignored (maybe did not even hear) the first few warnings. Then they made statements like saying they weren’t even given a chance to comply. Well, if you are so rambunctious and wrapped up in your own activities that you can’t hear the announcements, you might THINK you had only gotten one warning. When in fact the flight crew and other passengers can vouch for the fact that there were several commands and warnings given. Sheesh. Guessing those kids won’t make this mistake again on any airline, though.</p>