<p>For what it’s worth, I agree with Opie. I think that this error in judgment has been blown out of proportion by a combination of scandal-starved media and eager to finger-point Mommys and Daddys. (Not the parents of the kids who were actually there, mind you - for the most part, they seem to be ready to move on.) I think the outrage expressed by the posters to the Tennessean website, as well as here on CC, is excessive. I think a lot of people are gettin’ their sanctimony on by playing “I’m more outraged than you are.”</p>
<p>And I’m not surprised at the general lack of acknowledgment of Fundingfather’s story about a similar (in fact, objectively more over the line) experience from his own youth, and the lack of long term trauma associated with it. </p>
<p>Hereshoping, to answer your not-too-apt comparison to the corporate world, I wouldn’t be too surprised if something like this happened at a corporate retreat (which is the closer comparison to the week long school field trip to a state park than “company headquarters” or the post office) and I wouldn’t expect heads to roll if it did.</p>