Thursday, May 29, 2008

Bad Chaperone? Woman Arrested for Being Drunk on Field Trip - Banning High School

Why didn't we have field trips like this when I was in school. Oh yeah, I know, because the chaperones would have been arrested for getting themselves (and some of us) drunk on the ride home! Which, it appears, is exactly what happened to a busload of students from Banning High School in California. How did it happen? Well, it was the Spanish Club and apparently no one realized what a bad idea it would be to visit a tequila factory. (Just joking . . . we think.) On the bonus side, it appears that this is not the first time this school employee (she works in the attendance office, whatever that is) has previously been arrested for DUI and they still let her drive a bus load of kids somewhere. Wait, do you smell something? I smell a brewing lawsuit, don't you? The good news: so far now one has accused her of having sex with any of the kids . . . at least that anyone is sober enough to remember. Here's more from the Press Enterprise:
A Banning High School employee chaperoning a club field trip Friday was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, police said Tuesday. Banning police arrested Beaumont resident Lisa Racquel Arellanes, 32, after school buses returned from a trip to San Diego.

Police received a call at 8:52 p.m. that a bus was returning to campus with a school employee and an unknown number of students who possibly were intoxicated, a police report shows. When the three buses arrived, police determined that Arellanes, who police said works in the school's attendance office, was intoxicated and arrested her. She was booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, authorities said. In 2007, Arellanes pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or higher, records show.

Arellanes is on leave pending the results of the district's investigation, said Banning Unified School District Superintendent Lynne Kennedy. Fourteen students admitted drinking, but the source of the alcohol is unclear, police Lt. Mike West said. West said the alcohol involved was vodka and a margarita mix.
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  1. she was not the bus driver.
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  2. Haha! I remember that! I was on that fieldtrip my freshman year [now a junior! C/O 11!!] with AVID and we decided to later meet the Spanish club at the beach. When we got back, I remember a police officer came in our bus with a butt load of cops and parents outside in the back parking lot. He told us that they were all going to check us out to see if we were drinking and if you were one to drink to admit it! My bus was mostly AVID and only two of them I think were drinking but were not drunk, they didn't admit it...they didn't end up checking our bus, so they got away with it. The Spanish club bus, on the other hand, some students were in fact drunk. Then I realized that I seen a kid throw up like crazy at the beach earlier. They arrested the attendance lady and made her walk in front of all the parents into the cop car, since she drank with them and I even heard that she brought a bottle. Everyone was in shock of course and they blamed the Spanish teacher for asking her to chaperone! It wasn't even her fault..she argued that the district hired her, therefor they're the dumbasses and not herself! Good times! I also remember my best friend calling one of our other friends in the other bus and being all mad because she though he drank and he was like..I swear I didn't!! He was also pretty much telling us what was going on! We saw like 8 kids in handcuffs on the other side of the bus sitting down. I didn't really know them..but it sucked for them! So yeah...that's what pretty much went on! And one of the Mexican kids brought a bottle..I remember my friend telling me they brought a few bottles and were hiding them in their backpacks for a while....anyways..that's that!
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