What months do the chanting teen groups go to Disney?

[WEDWDW]

And yet last week at the Studios the pink and white group left a pile of what looked like 100 pink and white backpacks against a wall near RNR. I wish I had taken a photo, it was quite a sight.

I found a photo from last year of 2 small "Backpack Piles".

They picked a good spot here-near the RARELY opened WoL building!

 

[LOL!]

I was born in November of 1942. Shortly thereafter my father chose to join the United States Army Air Corps and just a bit more than a year later he flew - as its tailgunner - with the rest of his crew across the Atlantic to become a small part of the Allied effort in the European Theatre.

He was the last of the young men in our family to enter World War II. Leaving behind a little girl who was her mother's only child, the only grandchild on both sides of her family and the only neice of three young and vivacious aunts who - until their sweethearts came home and they were able to establish their own families - had a great deal of time to spoil her. So, because I was so often read to, I read newspapers at the age of three and have written for as long as I have memory.

And, as a consequence, I have always cherished - and respected - the awe-inspiring gift and the sobering responsibility of literacy. Words are powerful things. But words are also fragile things. And it has never been lost on me that during the very hours in which I was learning to read and write, whole libraries of thought committed to page were being burned all over the globe. So, I have never for a moment entertained the impulse to erase words spoken or written by another. No matter my opinion of them.

Nor, have I ever, until today, seen words I've written vanish as though they were never formed. And the pathology of their radical censorship has dumbfounded - rather than angered - me. They were, after all, such timid little things.

However, after this unpleasant day, I can say with absolute certainty that I am no longer in the least ... confused.

If you disagree with something I write
Tell me so. Argue with me. Correct me.
But don't tell me to shut up.
That's not the American way ~ Roger Ebert

You have very eloquently summed up why I was so reluctant to start posting on these boards after having read them for years. I completely agree with you and you have my total admiration for being able to put into words what I've been thinking for quite some time.

 

[larryz]

I found a photo from last year of 2 small "Backpack Piles".

They picked a good spot here-near the RARELY opened WoL building!

From a SECURITY perspective, this is really bad form. I hope this practice doesn't blow up in their face... so to speak...

 

[asta]

From a SECURITY perspective, this is really bad form. I hope this practice doesn't blow up in their face... so to speak...

Exactly! I can't imagine why Disney security allows this. This makes a mockery of all the we are going to inspect bags to keep you safe. All it takes is for one person to sneak something in, place the bag on the ground and walk away. Having a tour group bag does not automatically make you trustworthy. Instead this might be the perfect cover.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Exactly! I can't imagine why Disney security allows this. This makes a mockery of all the we are going to inspect bags to keep you safe. All it takes is for one person to sneak something in, place the bag on the ground and walk away. Having a tour group bag does not automatically make you trustworthy. Instead this might be the perfect cover.

 

[larryz]

I was born in November of 1942. Shortly thereafter my father chose to join the United States Army Air Corps and just a bit more than a year later he flew - as its tailgunner - with the rest of his crew across the Atlantic to become a small part of the Allied effort in the European Theatre.

He was the last of the young men in our family to enter World War II. Leaving behind a little girl who was her mother's only child, the only grandchild on both sides of her family and the only niece of three young and vivacious aunts who - until their sweethearts came home and they were able to establish their own families - had a great deal of time to spoil her. So, because I was so often read to, I read newspapers at the age of three and have written for as long as I have memory.

And, as a consequence, I have always cherished - and respected - the awe-inspiring gift and the sobering responsibility of literacy. Words are powerful things. But words are also fragile things. And it has never been lost on me that during the very hours in which I was learning to read and write, whole libraries of thought committed to page were being burned all over the globe. So, I have never for a moment entertained the impulse to erase words spoken or written by another. No matter my opinion of them.

Nor, have I ever, until today, seen words I've written vanish as though they were never formed. And the pathology of their radical censorship has dumbfounded - rather than angered - me. They were, after all, such timid little things.

However, after this unpleasant day, I can say with absolute certainty that I am no longer in the least ... confused.

If you disagree with something I write
Tell me so. Argue with me. Correct me.
But don't tell me to shut up.
That's not the American way ~ Roger Ebert

Well said. It's a windy tightrope we walk balancing free speech against the board sponsor's business interests.

 

[NCDisneyMom]

We've been traveling in July for many years now, and have seen our share of rude behavior by large tour groups (including the one lovely young lady who was flipping the bird to another tour group, on Main Street, while families were waiting for the parade to begin). We've had CM's really work with us on attractions, to make sure we were not placed with the groups who were chanting, singing, etc. We've also, in the past, had to ban together with other guests in the queues to keep large groups from cutting the lines.

However, both last year and this year (we just got home yesterday), the groups were still there in abundance, but MUCH more well behaved. We did not hear any chanting or singing, no line cutting, and no obscene gestures. I don't know if we just got lucky, or if Disney has cracked down on their behavior, but except for the flags and matching outfits, I probably wouldn't have even noticed them this year.

 

[robinb]

However, both last year and this year (we just got home yesterday), the groups were still there in abundance, but MUCH more well behaved. We did not hear any chanting or singing, no line cutting, and no obscene gestures. I don't know if we just got lucky, or if Disney has cracked down on their behavior, but except for the flags and matching outfits, I probably wouldn't have even noticed them this year.

I saw a lot of dedicated CMs in green shirts this year so that may be keeping them in check.

 

[Cyrano]

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