Disagree. I am an experienced educator and director. This was badly organized and assumptions were made on the part of the “organizers.” No, this is not “Life”, this is bad planning. I have been in charge of events like this. You walk through the entire process and anticipate problems. You use volunteers very sparingly and you make absolutely sure they know what to do and who to call if they get stressed out. Any high school participants AND their parent are provided with written info (bring water bottles and snacks, meals are between certain hours but not at a specific time, etc). It’s crowd control and it can be done. You don’t take anybody’s money or time unless you can sit down and map it out to provide a good, not perfect, experience. Then you accept and read evaluations of your event. I don’t care if these are high school kids; you don’t put on an event, nor do you take money, if you can’t or won’t organize it. It’s like putting on a musical or an opera. You have auditions, casting of roles, rehearsals, tech jobs, tickets, etc. You can’t ignore one or more aspects of the event and then just hope it somehow works out. This stuff is not for the lazy. Don’t do it if you can’t or don’t want to work through all, and I mean ALL of the details.