I would call my family comfortable working class, we have 3 kids, 2, 11 year old boys and 1 14 year old girl.
As they've grown older, school trips have just gotten fancier. Perhaps it's because they attended a small rural primary school but the most expensive trips then were about £300 per child for the whole year, this includes, a week away and days out throughout the year.
When DD started Secondary, they had a yearly trip abroad during Easter between £500-750, DD has gone twice as the other two years we simply couldn't afford it.
This year we have 3 children attending secondary & DH and I decided last year that we'd let all three go abroad and have a week off at home as our holiday for the year.
After quite a difficult year, we've managed to save up £2460 for their trip. This may not seem like a lot but it was bloody hard work, saving so much.
We received the letter about this years trip abroad for Easter and it's a week of skiing in Quebec, Canada for £1300 per child!
That amounts to £3900 all together, which is £1440 more than we can currently afford.
It was quite a shock & a disappointment but theirs no way we can afford it, we've decided to save up some more and spend the money on a holiday abroad during the summer instead.
I'm really disappointed & surprised, this is a regular comprehensive secondary, I doubt most of the kids will be able to go, the two times DD went only 20-30 kids out of her entire year went, but perhaps I'm just letting my feelings cloud my judgement.
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Reignbunker · 11/02/2017 19:39
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