In a fit of madness or something, I signed up months ago to chaperone my daughter’s fifth-grade class on a trip to DC. Being that I am her father, I figured this might pose some logistical problems in that I couldn’t both take her and her friends around the city and stay with them at the hotel at night. Same sex only, right? I figured all the parents would have to accept this.

Wrong. I discovered last week that the moms going on the trip are cleared to stay with their sons and his friends. Apparently it’s just the dads who aren’t allowed to stay with their opposite-sex child and her friends.
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