Alien8
Senior Moment
- Location
- (A little bit north of) Cambridge
Next summer (year 6, 10/11 year-old) my daughter has the opportunity of going on a residential school trip to one of those adventure/activity places in deepest Norfolk.
It's four nights away from home - travel out Monday morning, come back Friday afternoon.
The school treats it as a fait accompli that all the kids go and present it as a key part of the curriculum and value for money (although they don't at this stage give any details of what they'll be doing or justify the cost).
This will cost me £300.
I can't help thinking that I'm getting screwed here and so would like to hear that all you other parents get the same sort of abuse from your kid's schools?
[Yes, I know she doesn't have to go]
[Yes, I also know it will just get worse at secondary school when skiing trips, climbing the north face of the Eiger and solo circumnavigation of the globe in a bathtub become key parts of the curriculum]
It's four nights away from home - travel out Monday morning, come back Friday afternoon.
The school treats it as a fait accompli that all the kids go and present it as a key part of the curriculum and value for money (although they don't at this stage give any details of what they'll be doing or justify the cost).
This will cost me £300.
I can't help thinking that I'm getting screwed here and so would like to hear that all you other parents get the same sort of abuse from your kid's schools?
[Yes, I know she doesn't have to go]
[Yes, I also know it will just get worse at secondary school when skiing trips, climbing the north face of the Eiger and solo circumnavigation of the globe in a bathtub become key parts of the curriculum]