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Parents of a group of Ohio high school kids were a bit peeved when they found out that the chaperones had used duct tape to seal the kids in their hotel rooms. It was an action apparently given the thumbs up by the school board.

At a heated meeting Monday, Michelle Mata told the Lake Local school board in Millbury, Ohio, that the tactic panicked her son during a recent weekend trip.

Sylvia Keeler says she may file charges. Her son, Mark Hummel, says he worried he could be trapped in his room during a fire.

School board president Timothy Krugh told parents the tape was meant to keep students safe.

Schools Superintendent Jim Witt says the idea was to show if students violated curfew. He says the tape wouldn’t have kept them from getting out in an emergency.