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I have heard of several schools who have senior trips to places like the Bahamas, Paris, Bermuda, etc. Why no senior trip for WFRHS? Very disappointing!
I'm having a hard time working up any outrage for you. Not sending a bunch of spoiled high schoolers on a vacation out of reach of the average working American doesn't strike me as a problem.
I'm having a hard time working up any outrage for you. Not sending a bunch of spoiled high schoolers on a vacation out of reach of the average working American doesn't strike me as a problem.
Agree! What HS kid can afford a trip like that? I'm sick of driving by HS student parking lots and seeing 1/2 the cars being nicer than mine. And I have a good job!
I have heard of several schools who have senior trips to places like the Bahamas, Paris, Bermuda, etc. Why no senior trip for WFRHS? Very disappointing!
Have they done it in the past? I dont' recall it being much of a tradition at that school.
I have heard of several schools who have senior trips to places like the Bahamas, Paris, Bermuda, etc. Why no senior trip for WFRHS? Very disappointing!
For obvious legal reasons trips like that are rarely sponsored by the school. They are usually sponsored by parents or a for profit company. They advertise it in a way that it appears to be from the school. They don't advertise in the school but refer to the school. They will tell you the kids are chaperoned and I can only tell you that my 21 year old college son and his friends were offered jobs to chaperon a group to Cancun. Believe me I don't think you want your 17/18 year old daughter to be chaperoned by college students in Cancun.
Remember what happens in Cancun stays in Cancun.
I believe the Natalie Holloway trip was sponsored and chaperoned by parents. I suspect parents have begun to have second thoughts about organizing.
When I graduated HS back in 2k, the senior trip was planned by and even discussed at student council meetings, but was not officially sponsored by the school and no faculty had anything to do with it. The senior body themselves came up with it and did the work behind it. If the HS is not having one it's b/c the students didn't want one.
What an odd post. No trip to the Bahamas is disappointing? For real?
LOL....I think anytime you don't get to go to the Bahamas it's sort of disappointing! Heck, I am not even in school and I am sort of disappointed I am not on some Caribbean island right now!
However, I have no idea why it's disappointing for the school not to be having such a trip.
When I graduated HS back in 2k, the senior trip was planned by and even discussed at student council meetings, but was not officially sponsored by the school and no faculty had anything to do with it. The senior body themselves came up with it and did the work behind it. If the HS is not having one it's b/c the students didn't want one.
Those days are gone and Student Councils have been roped under control. Remember if something goes wrong even if the school has not sponsored it parents want to blame them and if possible sue them. Allowing it to be discussed in school by any student group blurs the line. Can you imagine if the Natalie Holloway trip had been sponsored by a school system with deep pockets what the law suits would have been like? The parents who sponsored and chaperoned were and perhaps still are on pins and needles worrying about one.
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