Is it ok for 2 fifteen year old girls to travel to a high school soccer game on the same bus with 40 teenage boys and two male coaches?

Why not offer to function as a chaperone? I’m sure the school would appreciate a volunteer.

Is the coach allowing non-team members to travel on the bus? That seems unusual to me.

No, I would not allow for this. The girls could interview for the yearbook at anytime during school hours. Otherwise, they could easily get driven to the game by a parent.

One would think (and hope, and expect) that the coaches would keep an eye on things and take their responsibility.
Let them stay in the vicinity of the coaches and all will be okay, I assume.

They should be fine, I mean, jeepers creepers…... what’s the worst thing that’s going to happen? :¬)

I wouldn’t worry about anything on the bus, but it’s after everyone gets off that worries me.

I offered to go the bus or drive them to the game but they argue that their yearbook project requires for them to go on the bus with the team and there’s not need for me to be on the bus. So, I did not allow them to go.

@concerndad At least in my school district, they wouldn’t be permitted to go on the team bus. The only students allowed are team members that have signed waivers. It seems like an odd request, an odd way to interview for the yearbook, and odd that the coach(es) would agree.

Occassionally, school news reporters will travel with the team, but they have signed waivers to travel for the school.

Whom don’t you trust in this scenario?

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I would not have let my daughter (if i had one) go either. I give @oncerndad a lot of credit.

The coach should have also denied the request. The boys do not need another distraction. The interview can be done in school with lots of other kids around.

I am protecting the boys here. If you recall, we know someone who had consensual sex with his 16 year old girlfriend 10 days before her 17th birthday. In NY, you must be 17 to give consent. Because he was older he was charged with Rape 3rd. His life is over. Until they change the laws I say keep the girls off the bus. All she has to do is sit next to one kid and say he touched her and his life is in the toilet. Lawyers love this stuff since they are so easy to prosecute. You just need two birth certificates. Do enough of them and an Assistant DA can turn into a DA.
Sad times.

No way… I know what goes on in the back of the bus. Who knows what the 2 male coaches are like with no other adults around… bad idea all around.

Boys and girls riding on the SAME bus together?!?! What kind of scandalous immoral country do you live in where this is even a possibility to happen?!?!?!

No organization that values their work will allow underage girls on a bus without an adult female (with or without boys)

@HungryGuy I used to think that, too, until our friend was charged with Rape 3rd – a Felony – and is now on a SO list forever. What a waste. Now FB is listing all SOs. Great…. At least he is not on that list since he is considered the lowest risk level.
If any of those boys (if they are 17+) so much as touch the girls they can be screwed for life. Sad but true.
In NY a 16 year old is called Jail Bait for a reason -and the Assistant DA’s love it! The ADAs already have the paperwork almost all filled out. All they need to do is fill in the names and birth dates.
After all, there’s nothing lower than a sex offender, right? Sheesh, my tax dollars pay for this.

@worriedguy – I see. So it is really the boys who need to be protected :-/ What an effed up world…

@HungryGuy, ^Yes. I know a couple of these situations IRL….One of which is on a sex registry for having consensual intercourse. He was 18 she was 16. Her parents pressed charges. His life will never be normal again.