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They Didn't Do This When I Was At School!
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13 year old granddaughter has to be in Gloucester at midnight tonight.
The school are going to Lille in France for the Christmas markets.
Hope they manage to sleep on the journey or they will be shattered tomorrow.
We never had trips like this when I was at school.
The school are going to Lille in France for the Christmas markets.
Hope they manage to sleep on the journey or they will be shattered tomorrow.
We never had trips like this when I was at school.
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Lille's a beautiful city at any time of year but I'm sure it will be lovelier still at Christamas:
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Foreign school trips are often a bit of a problem for many schools though, simply because only the kids from relatively wealthy families get to go. (It's a bit like Santa; he always seem to give the best presents to the rich kids!). I always wanted to go the the foreign trips when I was a kid but my parents could never afford it. (They eventually managed to find the money, after a bit of a struggle, to let me go a school walking holiday in the Lake District).
I organised a couple of school football tours to Belgium and Germany when I was teaching but after that I switched to taking the school teams on tours within the UK, so that everyone in the teams got to go (sometimes aided by the school fund).
What really used to annoy me though was the parents who moaned about 'teachers getting free holidays'. They didn't seem to understand that working for free, on duty for 24 hours per day, during the school holidays (which is when we always went on tour) and with very lively teenagers wasn't exactly a leisure actvity!
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Foreign school trips are often a bit of a problem for many schools though, simply because only the kids from relatively wealthy families get to go. (It's a bit like Santa; he always seem to give the best presents to the rich kids!). I always wanted to go the the foreign trips when I was a kid but my parents could never afford it. (They eventually managed to find the money, after a bit of a struggle, to let me go a school walking holiday in the Lake District).
I organised a couple of school football tours to Belgium and Germany when I was teaching but after that I switched to taking the school teams on tours within the UK, so that everyone in the teams got to go (sometimes aided by the school fund).
What really used to annoy me though was the parents who moaned about 'teachers getting free holidays'. They didn't seem to understand that working for free, on duty for 24 hours per day, during the school holidays (which is when we always went on tour) and with very lively teenagers wasn't exactly a leisure actvity!
>>> I find it hard to believe that any school would make it a requirement to be somewhere at midnight
I don't really see why not. I've had school cricket matches go on until after 10pm, with the kids still having to go home for their tea, and I've had pupils helping me set up stage lights until midnight. The overseas football tours I organised departed at 4am.
I don't really see why not. I've had school cricket matches go on until after 10pm, with the kids still having to go home for their tea, and I've had pupils helping me set up stage lights until midnight. The overseas football tours I organised departed at 4am.
School trips are getting more lavish all the time. My kids’ school has one to Iceland for a grand! The last time they went there wasn’t even any snow. My kids go on one really expensive trip but it’s a PGL for 10 days to the south of France. The girl goes in 2021 and the things will go in 2023 and I’ve already got a jar on the go (going to be close to £3000 for all three).
It's not just schools either, Sherrardk.
When I was teaching, there were two kids' Sunday league teams in Sheffield that competed to be the best in every way. (Despite there being 38 secondary schools in Sheffield, they had to bring in players from Chesterfield, Doncaster, etc to meet their incredibly high standards on the pitch). Their overseas tour were always designed to go one better than what the rival side had got organised. So, when one club arranged a tour of the West Indies, the other one soon announced their tour to Australia. Those tours must have cost the kids' parents a fortune, which would have been on top of paying for school trips as well.
When I was teaching, there were two kids' Sunday league teams in Sheffield that competed to be the best in every way. (Despite there being 38 secondary schools in Sheffield, they had to bring in players from Chesterfield, Doncaster, etc to meet their incredibly high standards on the pitch). Their overseas tour were always designed to go one better than what the rival side had got organised. So, when one club arranged a tour of the West Indies, the other one soon announced their tour to Australia. Those tours must have cost the kids' parents a fortune, which would have been on top of paying for school trips as well.
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