WorldHandicapSystem
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It’s hard but find a way to send the poor kid. The experience and memories are worth making it happen.
Random Irritations
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Sid Rixon IV
Head Pro
That's easy to say and completely overlooks the disgraceful situation in which the school has placed the parents, and the child.
That sort of issue should be dealt with confidentially with parents. As it is they've placed the parents and child in an embarrassing and distressing position.
I'd be bluddy livid and would be looking for a meeting, which it looks like LMS is not in a position to do.
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Spam Valley?
Outskirts of Dunfermline. Spam Valley would find an RS6 too base…
Swango1980
Well-known member
Yeah. Then send her to the Maldives for a couple of weeks. Forget the money, she'll love the experience
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Check the bottom of her bag, the note will be in there - along with loads of others
RichA
Well-known member
Haven’t got kids but MrsA is a secondary school teacher. This has done our heads in for years.
Some teacher dreams up a plan that it’s essential for A-Level students to spend 2 weeks at NASA or Hollywood, knowing they’ll get it cheap or free, while normal parents have to decide whether to sacrifice the annual holiday for the entire family.
It’s not right.
Some teacher dreams up a plan that it’s essential for A-Level students to spend 2 weeks at NASA or Hollywood, knowing they’ll get it cheap or free, while normal parents have to decide whether to sacrifice the annual holiday for the entire family.
It’s not right.
There were foreign trip options at my kids school. All were advised of well in advance, allowing parents to budget or kids to fundraise for them. There was never pressure applied.
If that isn't replicated, a school needs to look again at how they act.
If that isn't replicated, a school needs to look again at how they act.
My daughter’s secondary school offered the kids a trip to Vietnam. £4k. Fortunately she wasn’t interested but I know it caused all sorts of arguments elsewhere.
And then of course there was the annual ski trip…….
What I actually said, as you well know, was that we struggle in the UK to cope with weather which is “(not so) adverse”. They were my exact words.
Swango1980
Well-known member
4k is nothing. About the price for a new set of clubs
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
How about no! I absolutely appreciate the experience it may be. But I can’t and won’t force her mum to come up with £1000 out of thin air while she has to run a home herself and doesn’t have the spare funds. Even if I paid the first instalment outright for her it puts even more pressure on her to find what she doesn’t have and we might not be together anymore but I still care that she is able to live a happy stress free life for the kids.
We alternate which year we take them away on holiday, this is her year and she already forked out a fair wedge to take them to Turkey which during school holiday is basically double what she could get for any other time so kids aren’t missing experiences.
I wish that was the case but this daughter can’t keep secrets and forgets nothing she’s always the first to ask for something so I’m inclined to believe herCheck the bottom of her bag, the note will be in there - along with loads of others
Exactly this I’m currently away with absolutely no chance of having recourse with the school apart from email which they tend to ignore which makes it worse as it’s her mum will have to deal with the fall out completely. Had an hour on FaceTime last night with her and our daughter genuinely felt sorry for both of them.
This is the other thing it’s not just one foreign trip they put on loads each year and expect parents just to find the money or in the schools words “child misses valuable education experiences “. In year 8 they do a Paris trips which are £1000 For a 4 day excursion which we she went on last June so if she went on this one in just over 12months it would be over £3k for a 14 year old girl to go on 2 school trips !
irip
Head Pro
Can I ask if this is a private or state school?How about no! I absolutely appreciate the experience it may be. But I can’t and won’t force her mum to come up with £1000 out of thin air while she has to run a home herself and doesn’t have the spare funds. Even if I paid the first instalment outright for her it puts even more pressure on her to find what she doesn’t have and we might not be together anymore but I still care that she is able to live a happy stress free life for the kids.
We alternate which year we take them away on holiday, this is her year and she already forked out a fair wedge to take them to Turkey which during school holiday is basically double what she could get for any other time so kids aren’t missing experiences.
I wish that was the case but this daughter can’t keep secrets and forgets nothing she’s always the first to ask for something so I’m inclined to believe her
Exactly this I’m currently away with absolutely no chance of having recourse with the school apart from email which they tend to ignore which makes it worse as it’s her mum will have to deal with the fall out completely. Had an hour on FaceTime last night with her and our daughter genuinely felt sorry for both of them.
This is the other thing it’s not just one foreign trip they put on loads each year and expect parents just to find the money or in the schools words “child misses valuable education experiences “. In year 8 they do a Paris trips which are £1000 For a 4 day excursion which we she went on last June so if she went on this one in just over 12months it would be over £3k for a 14 year old girl to go on 2 school trips !
Either way there communication is disgraceful and seriously needs looking at.
They must realise the pressure this is putting some parents under as well as the kids to keep up with their peers.
To ask parents to find £1000 just after Xmas is madness.
Also what happened to a trip to the local Zoo as a school trip?
I think one year we were taken to a factory and showed where they thought 99% would end up working.
Neilds
Assistant Pro
We had a trip to Grimsby Docks and Cleethorpes when I was at junior school. We stopped at the newly opened Humber Bridge, went swimming, ice skating, round the fish place at the docks and then time in the theme park at Cleethorpes - and still made it back to the school in Barnsley for usual home time. Never worked out how we fitted it all in. And we didn't have any additional teachers or adults to supervise us
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
State school none of that expensive private stuff for my kids! That ring said the state school clearly is bloody expensive now
They don’t seem to do normal school trips anymore at our kids school it’s all foreign trips or overnight stays somewhere almost feels like they’re fleecing people.
I remember trips to Chatham Dockyard to learn about the building of HMS Victory and how to make rope! Fanciest trip we got was London Imperial War Museum with a Burger King that was luxury.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
My one and only school trip was 5 days in London staying at an institutional style hall of residence while the students weren’t there, think it was £97 inc return bus from Scotland
Don’t remember much, must’ve been a museum visit or two in there, saw Russ Abbot tv show being filmed. Bought my first Rubik cube, wondered what on earth a ‘root beer’ is and why is it being sold in McD’s… Went home
Don’t remember much, must’ve been a museum visit or two in there, saw Russ Abbot tv show being filmed. Bought my first Rubik cube, wondered what on earth a ‘root beer’ is and why is it being sold in McD’s… Went home
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
Why not play them at their own game. Your wife and daughters go away the week the school wants to go to trump land so they can have a cheaper holiday together. The school can’t complain about them missing school time then can they.State school none of that expensive private stuff for my kids! That ring said the state school clearly is bloody expensive now
They don’t seem to do normal school trips anymore at our kids school it’s all foreign trips or overnight stays somewhere almost feels like they’re fleecing people.
I remember trips to Chatham Dockyard to learn about the building of HMS Victory and how to make rope! Fanciest trip we got was London Imperial War Museum with a Burger King that was luxury.
Ps, Chatham Dockyard now has oak timbers on display that were uncovered through works there that were used as foundations for buildings, the oak timbers being from other vessels of Nelsons fleet.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Seeing as my ex would firstly have to agree to going on holiday with me to take my daughters away that week and my actual wife would also have to be on board
. The other issue is that trip would only cover taking 1 daughter out of school we’d still get bloody fined for taking the younger one and our son out for it . You raise a good point though because she clearly going to be missing several lessons and subject throughout the week that have no relevance to New York but that’s ok as it’s school planned but if we did it, it’s wrong and they miss education
. Re: the Nelson timbers that’s actually pretty cool might have to take a trip there. Haven’t been in a fair few years now and always enjoyed it there. Sounds like a good excuse to go along and enjoy a day out. Grab a drink down at the ship and trades and spot of lunch after. May look into that when I get back and am next down that way visiting my mum.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
If I were among the staff at a school considering an educational cultural trip, I would think only of places in the UK and Ireland.
Learning about and understanding the history of the culture in the UK and Ireland seems to be vastly overlooked in England educational establishments.
Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Dublin, Belfast, Newcastle, Bath - oh the list is almost endless and so very interesting.
Choose a place or places for a cultural educational trip and organise a family trip for less than £2,000
Embrace and absorb the local culture of language, cuisine, music and traditions of any place you choose.
Learning about and understanding the history of the culture in the UK and Ireland seems to be vastly overlooked in England educational establishments.
Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Dublin, Belfast, Newcastle, Bath - oh the list is almost endless and so very interesting.
Choose a place or places for a cultural educational trip and organise a family trip for less than £2,000
Embrace and absorb the local culture of language, cuisine, music and traditions of any place you choose.
Slime
Tour Winner
My school trips always seemed to be a day out at Corfe Castle.
I only did one overseas schooll trip ................................ Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.
I only did one overseas schooll trip ................................ Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Well Just to detract from the school irritation. Had to go back to the Docs as was told after 48hrs, my blood pressure is through the roof and lungs are in actual clip. I’ve been put on an inhaler 4 x a day and I’m struggling badly to even take a pee standing up without being short of breath 
For someone whose always fit, healthy and in the gym those symptoms couldn’t be further from normal for me, more isolation for another 48hrs unable to work, exercise and feel human isn’t helping my irritability with pretty much anything
God I’m bored !
For someone whose always fit, healthy and in the gym those symptoms couldn’t be further from normal for me, more isolation for another 48hrs unable to work, exercise and feel human isn’t helping my irritability with pretty much anything
God I’m bored !
