tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post2068657120610940920..comments2024-03-26T16:34:28.335+01:00Comments on the piri-piri lexicon: School overnight trips in first grade? Yes, please!The Piri-Piri Lexiconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07211814852783699044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-11688372491067447392017-04-21T20:50:15.536+02:002017-04-21T20:50:15.536+02:00I do realize I am privileged in both these respect...I do realize I am privileged in both these respects. However, where I grew up was not a privileged area either. Yet almost all families sent their kids on those school trips. Financial help was always available in some sort. When I worked as a camp counselor, it was for camps organized by cities or charities where, again, most kids came from under-privileged backgrounds. Yet, they went on these 3-weeks long summer trips. Annabellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307996916856027630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-39827720057204873052017-04-21T19:59:09.265+02:002017-04-21T19:59:09.265+02:00I think it's awesome that you have the privile...I think it's awesome that you have the privilege of being able to trust that the teachers can keep your child safe. Unfortunately for many this is not the case. Parents of kids with disabilities like life threatening food allergies don't always have that trust. I'm happy that I've only had to pick my child up early for one minor reaction this year but I dread even single day field trips and would never trust teachers to feed my child.<br /><br />Trips like this were also wildly uncommon where I grew up because many of the families were low income and could not afford the fees required.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-37825104940253924292017-04-20T09:05:46.494+02:002017-04-20T09:05:46.494+02:00Wow! Good on you and your little girl!! I´m such a...Wow! Good on you and your little girl!! I´m such an overprotective mum and a born worrier that I would find it difficult to let my children go on overnight trips until at least 10! hahaha! ; ) Last month my 5yr old went on her furthest day trip which was about an hour away and I was worried about the bus trip!!!!I don´t think I went on an overnight trip until I was 10/11.<br />The Wandering Pithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283549344297520868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714607023586830416.post-90794949093632759212017-04-11T16:34:53.495+02:002017-04-11T16:34:53.495+02:00I don't think the schools I was had any overni...I don't think the schools I was had any overnight trips when I was that age, only day trips. I know some of the people I was at high school with had a week away in middle school, so age 8 or 9 I think.<br /><br />I went camping with sea cadets when I was 10.<br /><br />Age 11, I wanted to go on the German exchange. My mum said no, not because she didn't want me to have a trip abroad but because we couldn't afford the fee for it! No cheap airlines in those days...Confuzzled Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01471749871770054481noreply@blogger.com