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From the policy:
Guests aged 17 years and under must be accompanied by an adult chaperone beginning at 4:00 p.m.
An adult chaperone is a parent, guardian, or other supervising adult at least 21 years of age. Adult chaperones must be able to provide valid ID, including a photograph and date of birth.
Each adult chaperone must be present at the time of entry and remain within the park for the duration of their party’s visit.
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Is this a Covid thing or some other thing? I know that Six Flags has often become a baby sitting service for kids during the summer and that's pretty annoying to other guests.
Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."
When I last visited in in 2018 the crowd and the surrounding neighborhoods were not, um, the best. A completely different feel than when I used to visit in the 90s and early 2000s when my grandfather was alive and we'd head up that way every summer. I remember thinking that I would not necessarily want to be one of the last guests out at the end of the night in the dark heading to the free far parking lot. Unfortunately I think it's probably more a result of that than anything else.
They had a few large brawls this year (and last year, and the year before) so this is likely a response to that. Kids can still enter the park early without a chaperone before 4pm so we’ll see how this goes.
ApolloAndy said:
Is this a Covid thing or some other thing?
This has been a longtime problem, but was definitely more widespread this past summer. I'm not sure if it's because more teens were out of work due to covid, because they somehow felt more comfortable getting into fights because there were so few families at the park this year, or other factors.
They do address that in the policy, but also, maybe it's not that important. Maybe they're finding that the kids who are there most of the day and are making a day of it don't cause as much trouble as those who arrive later and are just making a short stop?
Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."
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