this year.

Okay, so maybe I sensationalized the title slightly, but an article on the CBC today reports that a father’s grounding of his 12-year-old daughter from a class trip to Quebec was to severe. The actual situation seems a bit complicated (Parents are divorced, Dad has custody, but girl went to live with Mom when she didn’t want to be grounded), but if a parent decides their 12-year-old child can’t go on a trip I think that should be the end of it, it shouldn’t really have to matter what their reason is. Yes, it’s wrong from a moral and humane standpoint to forbid her to go just because you don’t like the colour of the bus, but any reasonable reason is reasonable.