School trip £600!!!!!!!!!

preable

When i was younger we went on a trip to spain and had to pay £500 luckly my parants had enough money but in the end it was boring and half the people on the trip got food poisoning hahahahahaha

happymonkey40

My daughter has brought a letter home stating she was in a Gold club for excellent behaviour at school, and as a reward they are taking the children to Drayton Manor for the day, but i have to pay £35.00!!!! What !!!!! the school are rewarding her, but i have to pay......

pulliptears

I never understood why kids were charged £10+ for visits to free attractions. I recall my DS going somewhere one year that was free entry but having to pay £12. £12 x 22 = £264 which is surely more than enough for the coach?

BargainGalore

Thought some one would pick up on that, as usually you chose to pick half of what I said

I dont resent some teachers but why partners too why should they go free?

I only stated in my last post one reason why costs are higher ie cost of teachers/partners

Idiophreak wrote: »

Yes, surely the teachers should *pay* to look after a bunch of screaming brats for a week in a foreign country...:wall:

threemuttleys

I remember going to the Lake District when I was at Primary School...cost my mum nearly £500 for four days...two days in I rang her to come and get me...was awful...food, teachers, bored out of our brains

tower

My son has just returned from an outward bound break in cornwall, which cost £380. They had an info meeting 3 days before leaving and we were told they would be sleeping in caravans on a holiday park. I'm sure the up take would have been less had we known. Also on the first day back he brings home a letter for another trip to euro disney, 3 days £400 for physics..

DCFC79

tower wrote: »

My son has just returned from an outward bound break in cornwall, which cost £380. They had an info meeting 3 days before leaving and we were told they would be sleeping in caravans on a holiday park. I'm sure the up take would have been less had we known. Also on the first day back he brings home a letter for another trip to euro disney, 3 days £400 for physics..

how is disney related to physcis,

laurel7172

pulliptears wrote: »

I never understood why kids were charged £10+ for visits to free attractions. I recall my DS going somewhere one year that was free entry but having to pay £12. £12 x 22 = £264 which is surely more than enough for the coach?

You'd be surprised how much coaches cost. Depending on the times and distance, it's even possible the school was subsidising that trip.

We wanted to take the kids to the local cinema as part of a history project on film earlier this year. But, even with subsidy from the school, we couldn't do it for less than £15 per head because the coaches cost so much. We couldn't ask parents for so much for so little, and we didn't go.

mountainofdebt

I remember working with a girl once whose husband was a teacher and he was taking a coach load of children skiiing.

Unfortuantely on the way there they hit bad weather and got stranded. Whilst they were waiting to be rescued not only not did the teachers have to look after all the children, they had to bear in mind that one of the children was diabetic.

Once they had got rescued they had to spend a night or two in the village hall, with the towns folk bringing them food.

Personally I wouldn't want the responsibility as regardless of what was the cause of any accident, you can bet your last dollar the first question on everyone's lips would be 'and where was the teachers?'

trumpton

There has to be a certain staff-to-child ratio on trips, which varies depending on the childrens' ages. On school trips there is usually one free adult place to each 10 paying travellers. It may be that someone's husband went because they needed to make up the adult:child numbers, or maybe required a male in the party.

However, I think schools should make a stand and simply stop offering these over-priced 'educational' trips.