Chaperone Guidelines

At least one adult chaperone will be in attendance on trips for each fifteen students participating. Chaperones will be needed to aid the director in assuming the following responsibilities:

	Taking roll on the busses and planes
	Maintaining discipline on the busses and planes
	Enforcing trip discipline policy
	Accompanying injured students to treatment center (if the need should arise)
	Supervising one choir while the director is rehearsing or performing with another
	Supervising students who have failed to follow trip policy during confinement
	Providing a chain-of-command for students to follow when the director’s attention is focused elsewhere

Chaperones are required to pay for the cost of the trip, and will be housed in doubles rather than quads unless specific arrangements are made. Application for Chaperones will be taken During the month of December. Parents of seniors get preference, but parents with special skills or abilities are also needed for the trip (especially those with medical training).
Chaperone duties will be pre-assigned, and may be traded if other chaperones are willing to agree. With a little luck (and a lot of student responsibility), confinement supervision will not be necessary.