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OK, let me make this very simple for you so that you can understand it. Read very slowly so that you can follow.
When you are a field trip chaperone, your number one priority is the safety of the young people under your care. Absolutely nothing is more important. That means if you see a fistfight breaking out a block away, you steer your kids in another direction. If there's something serious going on near a museum or other event where you were planning on going, either you take a back route or you don't go. If you see a bunch of crazy people trying to verbally pick a fight with anyone nearby, as BIM was, you keep your distance from them.
This is not a difficult concept.
This is a basic, simple standard that every parent should expect when they place the lives of their youngsters in the hands of chaperones.
Do you see it now? Or is risking the physical safety of those boys (and that Native American, once he was surrounded by the boys in a scene that felt ripped straight out of Lord of the Flies) fine by you as long as they say what you wanted to say? Is this all because of tribalism, Chris? Is it because of their political positions? Does that excuse everything they did?
Yep, and you have solid evidence of the great physical harm done to those kids by simply staying put and doing a few "frenzied" school cheers. So many needless injuries could have been avoided if only they had moved the group of kids away from a few folks shouting insults at them.