Monday, August 25, 2014

8/26/14 The Case of the Traveling Service Teams

"When responding to case studies, its important to read the whole case and form your opinion.  Your response to case studies, should be a MINIMUM of 50 words and needs to include what YOU would do if YOU were put into the situation."  

Ready the study below,


All year long you plan Service Learning Trips for students and no matter how well you try to plan them, something always comes up . This year, you have one trip planned to leave for Guatemala where they are going to spend the week teaching leadership in various High Schools . You also have another trip planned to go to the Dominican Republic to work with low-income families and orphans . Both are going to share a bus to the Miami Airport because they fly out at similar times (the Guatemala team flies out 25 minutes earlier than the Dominican Republic team) . In order to make their flights, they are scheduled to leave at 5:00 a .m . for the bus ride that will take an hour and a half to get to the airport .

While the Guatemala team arrives on time, the Dominican Republic team is missing their male student leader . Along with being one of the trip's leaders, he is also the only male going on the trip because all of the others needed to drop out due to financial reasons . Attempts to reach him or his roommates on the phone have proved to be unsuccessful and it's now 5:30 a .m .

In planning these trips, you told everybody that you would leave people behind if they don't wake up on time, but that's not so easy to do in this situation . The Dominican Republic trip, while not overly dangerous, would face some serious complications without a male presence on the trip . However, if more time is taken to wait for this leader, the Guatemala team might miss their flight . The student leader lives about fifteen minutes away from campus, but it's on the way to the airport, so you decide to start driving and hope he answers his phone before you get to his apartment .

As you get closer to where the leader lives, he still hasn't answered his phone . You could pull into the parking lot to knock on his door, but every minute spent waiting for this leader makes it highly possible that you'll run into rush hour traffic in Miami, which would most likely result in the teams missing their flights .

> What would you do? 

5 comments:

  1. If I would were put into this situation I would go to his apartment and I would knock on his door very loudly until he wakes up. I would also see if his door is unlocked and if it is I would just walk in and wake him up. I would then help him pack clothes very quickly. After he is all packed up I would get him to the car very quickly and we would speed back to the airport in time to not miss the flight.

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  2. I think that if I was in this situation I would knock on the door and if nobody comes I would probably leave him there and see if we could quickly replace him or have the other students go to the other trip.

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  3. If i was put in this situation I would go to where he lives. I would knock on his door to try and wake him up. If there was someone that was close to him, I would have them walk in and walk him up. If no one could enter his house and he wouldn't wake up from the knocking I would leave him.

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  4. I would say something to him and tell him to get his poop in group and get up and get his stuff going and get packed and get to the airport then if push came to shove i would pack for him and throw him in the veicahel and if he didn't he would say miss out on something fun you loser.

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  5. If I were put in this situation i would break into his apartment and wreck everything then leave his butt there. That's the American way. I also would never find myself in Guatemala. That place is terrible. If I want bugs in my ears I would go to Hawaii. At least I wouldn't get water boarded there.USA USA USA USA !

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