School Trips

[Caran]

Remember the trips we had from school, I remember staying in a grotty dormitory somewhere in Yorkshire, we had a wonderful time and cost very little.
My grandson age 13 a tells me they are having a school rugby trip next year to
New Zealand. The cost will be £3000 each. How on earth are parents to be expected to pay exorbitant amount of money. He has been told if he wants to go he has to save up himself. I know they will chip in and so will I as long as he makes the effort and amasses the larger amount of this, so all birthday and Christmas money will be going in the pot.
But what about the families who have no chance of saving this amount. I do think things have got out of hand. I am sure there will be a lot of peer pressure too.

[McMouse]

Many years ago my son went on a school trip to Canada which cost a fortune. He's in his late 40's now and still talks about it. We learnt later that those parents that could afford it were actually subsidising those children from less well off families who went. One option might have been to have a day trip to Bognor which everyone could afford.

[Mick-Talbot]

If it is the rugby team, then all the team should have the opportunity to go together..

That is what 'teams' do. It is not a team at all if the less well off members are left at home kicking a can in the street.

The school should be doing fund raising for the trip as a whole......you know, kind of like Building Team Spirit.

[albaqwerty]

The local teams around here, whether they be school or otherwise, do fundraising together.