School Trip

Spendless

patchwork_cat wrote: »

On the return journey DD and classmates were told by teacher in charge that there was to be no more talk of it and that would be the end of it!

On the coach you mean?

POPPYOSCAR

I think this is disgraceful - were the teachers asleep or something?

If I were in your shoes I would be really annoyed.We pay a fortune for these schooltrips and the least they can do is get it right.Sometimes i dont know why they even bother, by the time they get there and if there are loads of other school trips there, the kids only get to go on a couple of rides anyway!!

SugarSpun

Is there an update this morning?

poet123

How can anyone not notice road signs for 3 hours? I rarely use motorways as a driver, but as a passenger I would certainly notice the signs did not seem to indicate we were going in the right direction. Also, presumably there was more than one teacher on the coach? surely one of them would have noticed and flagged it up to the driver.

I wouldn't blame him necessarily either, I suspect his manifest was wrongly annotated ( probably the one for the AT trip was being used rather than the one for the CZ trip if it was the same coach firm) and if no one mentioned the destination he carried merrily on his way.

I would expect the school to get a full refund for the shortened trip. I think the teacher on the coach could do little else but carry on until the mess could be sorted out, so telling the kids to stop talking about it is understandable, kids fan the flames and pack mentality soemtimes takes over in these cases, so better to change the subject and try to make the best of a bad situation until a better solution can be achieved.

patchwork_cat

Had a letter home with DD saying they are pursuing the coach company, but no comment on the teachers obviously, no apology either - they have laid the blame squarely on coach companies shoulders. While it is their fault I still feel that the teachers must have been having a very interesting conversation (which DD says they were!) Apparently at one point the kids started pointing to Meadowhall and shouting it's Meadowhall very loudly and the teachers still didn't realise - so they were obviously not paying attention to the children. ( For those without local knowledge Meadowhall is about 30 miles in the wrong direction!)

POPPYOSCAR

I agree with you.

I think the teachers are to blame just as much if not more than the driver, he was probably just following instructions.It is hard to imagine that the teachers were taking no notice of the children - they are in their care and should be aware of everything going on around them I would find this quite worrying.Have any of the parents complained about this to the school?

bylromarha

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Had a letter home with DD saying they are pursuing the coach company, but no comment on the teachers obviously, no apology either - they have laid the blame squarely on coach companies shoulders.

Well they would, wouldn't they?

At least when I mucked up when teaching, I used to square up to the parent of the child and say sorry. Didn't change the situation, but certainly gave it closure.

schooltripadvisor

The coach company are totally responsible here and the school could demand another trip and the coach company would have to pay for new entrance tickets. But the school would have problems with getting cover for another day I feel but must get some compensation for the children.

No excuse they mucked up.

As an ex school tour operator I know that coach companies are under pressure at this time of year but 40 children have missed out on a full day of fun.

ceebeeby

Just to be clear though, did you pay the school money, or did you pay the coach company money.

If you paid the school money, presumably you entered into a contract with them for goods or services (not a 3rd party supplier that they sub-contracted too).

They MUST accept some responsibility!

patchwork_cat

TY I would like my DD to go again with school, because the refund is not going to pay for her, the petrol and one adult. We paid the school money.