<p>Hi, Kate. You said: " The broader question is actually much more interesting than the narrow drunken-beach-party-or-not issue."</p>
<p>Then why don’t you and curmudgeon and others start a new thread on this topic? There will surely be plenty of responses, including probably my own. That may also be an appropriate forum for some of the parents that have posted here to explain how allowing their child to travel unsupervised with other children during senior week somehow is a major step in their maturing process and also amazingly helps provide the parent with proof that the child is now ready to go off to college.</p>
<p>The topic of this thread is " Seek parent views on “Senior Week” and out of respect to the OP, I am trying to keep my comments limited to the circumstances under which I would or would not allow my children to participate.</p>