Child unwell on school trip

Were you one of the teachers?

Very strange that a school has a trip to Disney Land for children taking GCSEs . My children’s school had them on a revision schedule for the Easter Holidays!
Anyway I hope your child is feeling better now.

People are fucking horrible on here these days. And that's saying something.

Maybe doesn't fancy it feeling like he's going to throw up and potentially in a mess from / risking further diarhhea. Poor kid. It's sad to ask for help from an adult (who is in loco parentis) in a foreign country and feeling quite ill. I'd expect more from a friend as an adult let along a teacher in this sense.

People are horrendously harsh on here these days.

I went to Disney land in year 11 in easter. Wonder if it’s the same school! (If it is the same school then all the teachers were definitely pissed!)

@GrumpyMiddleAgedCow, doesn't that depend on what the illness is? For all the teacher knows it's something like septicaemia or appendicitis and it would be dangerous to leave the child to look after himself.

Are you kidding of course it’s comparable…He is 16 not 6 he should be able to look after himself at that age, that’s how the real world works. If you want to say it’s not comparable this child should be wrapped all the way up because it’s a school trip that’s fine…but IMO you’re doing your child an injustice, the world is harsh and you need to know how to look after yourself, even if someone should have turned up for you, you should know what steps to take if they don’t

It's sods law that the one time you don't check on a child feeling unwell thatvl it isv going to be appendicitis not too much ice cream. I would certainly have checked on the kid, but going by how my own kids have sometimes been 'cared' for on school trips it doesn't surprise me in the slightest

Keep going and someone will argue with you but I'm going to sleep now.

'In loco parentis' means you are looking after a child whilst the parents are absent. Parents have an expectation of their children being looked after on school trips in the same way they would look after them. Even if the child was a complete drip there were 9 teachers that should have been available to help him. Maybe another child would have handled the situation better but this one couldn't cope. Being sick and having the shits in a foreign theme park is pretty unpleasant I should think. If a mum posted she'd left her child in this condition to carry on queuing and enjoying her day she'd have her arse handed to her and rightly so.

You sound right up yourself too. Does that also help your supposed “well-being”?

What if he couldn't?

If your child was taken ill in these circumstances, would you just leave him to get himself back to the hotel while you carried on queuing for a ride?

My benchmark is establishing the facts first. I find that reduces unnecessary confrontation and increases my well-being.

Who made you the doctor to be able to diagnose the student? You’re not and vomiting is a symptom of a wide range of illnesses including deadly ones.

Presumably they have contingency plans in place for just this sort of situation. If they don't, it would be highly negligent.

I’d bloody complain and as a mother who entrusted my child’s well-being to these supposed adults, I’d have every right to!

You sound like your benchmark is way too low.

As a former teacher, I can tell you that quite a number of teachers saw these trips as an opportunity for a paid holiday (despite the extra work and responsibility). It’s one of the few perks they get!

You need help.

Going to Disney with a group of school children in your holiday time is not a holiday!

Can you tell us more about this, please? In twenty years of teaching I have never encountered such an arrangement.

I definitely think you need to get the full details from both sides before you go in with a complaint. It sounds unlikely that, on being informed of a sick student, all the accompanying teachers simply ignored that and carried on with their day, none of the 9 staff even attempting to look for him. I'm sure the teachers' version of events will be different from your son's and how will you prove either is factual? It is a big park so it's possible there were people looking and didn't find him. It sounds like he didn't go to the guest services so had he not been told that was an option? If not that could be a learning point for future trips but as he is now safe and the illness seems to have passed I'm not sure what else you are hoping to gain from complaining.

So, again
What time did this happen and in what order?
Why was he in the village and not in the park?
Why did he need to be found before he fell asleep? Did the teacher take him to a cafe?
What medication did they manage to find at DLP that helped with V&D?

I think most of us are surprised that the school are running a trip for year 11 now as we have children in year 11 and have 2 weeks of revision sessions in school during the Easter holidays 🤷🏼‍♀️.

I hope that your son is ok op and yes, I would be making a complaint. What if he has become really ill and passed out or something, the school have a responsibility to look after their students.

Jesus.
How much did a trip to DLP cost you at Easter weekend?

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to take them as a post gcse treat at the end of June?

Is this a private school, by any chance?

He was on a school trip in the care of adults - not even vaguely comparable 🙄