£1,850 School Trip

[Deskdiary]

This is becoming silly, isn't it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5908197/Single-mother-32-asked-pay-1-850-school-trip.html

I suspect there are many parents in the area concerned who would be unable to afford £1,850, and yet with zero sense of irony the school posted the following on their website.

'It’s an unforgettable and eye-opening trip, where students learn first hand about the enormous resourcing gap between people groups and how the squalor of poverty sits alongside the extravagance of wealth.'

[andres]

Fruit picking in Blairgowrie ,Scotland. Earning money, having fun. Was a great holiday. Don't remember the cost but I was over the moon when Dad gave me £3 to spend! That was in 1950.

[kvalidir]

//And it's really done to get the richer ones embarked on a lifetime of profligate consumerism and coffee-table competitiveness.//

Yes indeed, and poorer ones on a lifetime of over stretching themselves to keep up.

The road to misery starts early it seems :/

[andres]

Spath---We had 240 old pennies to the pound! Had a whale of a time on the arcades back then. Bit heavy to carry around though.

[Sqad]

Kvali...it does start early and in my opinion, one should have played that piece of music which has the line:
"I beg you pardon, i never promised you a rose garden"

at all births, because that is the bottom line.

if you can't afford it, you can't have it and the only way that you will be able to afford it is through a work ethos.

[youngmafbog]

"the only way that you will be able to afford it is through a work ethos. "

Showing your age there Sqad :-)

Didn't you know the memememe generation like it all now, and someone else to pay. Hence Jezza's las election promises to them.

[kvalidir]

I do agree with that Sqad, it's a carrot for those with a work ethos, but for those who are not naturally gifted or have other issues it's a stick, and in the pursuit of nice things some people take an easier way to getting them than working their behind's off, and like it or not things like this are creating that, and yes Spath cancel the trips, no-one need to go to South Africa on a teacher's freebie to learn anything. My child wouldn't be going even though I could afford it and I'd be thrilled to tell the school why.

[youngmafbog]

"and I'd be thrilled to tell the school why. "

And that would be your child finished!

[Old_Geezer]

Not unusual. My parent's scraped together, somehow, for me to go on the SS Uganda school cruise around the Med, many years ago. The trips aren't compulsory.

[kvalidir]

Exactly, and that's why my child wouldn't be going to school in the first place YMB. I think if you can it's far better to keep them away from mass education until College/ Uni. I appreciate it's not always possible but it would certainly be my preferred option.

[237SJ]

I think people are reading too much into 'damaging' effects of this. I remember my parents not allowing me to go on school trips because they didn't want to subsidise a freebie for the teacher and his wife. I can't remember feeling devastated by it - not sure I even wanted to go anyway. I couldn't think of anything worse than going on holiday with teachers.

[tamborine]

If the parent has 2 or more kids the price would be ridiculous or cause divisions within the family. My children were at the school where children were drowned in Cornwall. Teacher/pupil ratios for school trips were determined after this horrific accident.

[The_Rim_Greaper]

"where students learn first hand about the enormous resourcing gap between people groups and how the squalor of poverty sits alongside the extravagance of wealth"

gotta lurv the irony...and also a great chance to try and engineer some socialist leftie claptrap about the rich and the poor divide into their impressionable little brains...

[youngmafbog]

"I think if you can it's far better to keep them away from mass education until College/ Uni."

Quite agree private education all the way.

[youngmafbog]

Who said they should? We are just professing our preference nothing to be forced on others.