Is this a bit wrong?

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I just had an email from my child's school about a ski holiday. It's costing over 800 for a week. It's happening Feb 22. So on top of dealing with Xmas people have less than 3 months to get over 800 together. It just makes me think they dont want the lower income pupils to go . Could be me over thinking though.

DC’s ski trip (cancelled for Covid) was £1400 each with not much longer to pay. Add the cost of all the kit on top and it’s not a cheap trip at all.

Honestly about ten kids from my year went on the ski holiday.

Everyone else’s parents obviously rightly thought WTAF (normal secondary school in a ruralish area) and sent their kids on the much cheaper french or German exchange instead.

I think trips like that at school are bonkers.

Surely it is optional and most kids would not be going. In normal times there would be more notice but resorts and accommodation will only now be hoping to stay open to overseas guests.

It is most likely bad planning, or possibly inability to plan well due to all the changing covid rules. It's rather unlikely that the intent is to exclude anyone.

Ski trips are expensive things though so of course many children will feel excluded. More time to pay may help some families but not all.

In the context of covid I wouldn't sweat it - it might still be cancelled or some practical issues might arise, I wouldn't worry about letting that one go.

We subscribed to a ski school trip for Feb 2022 and it is now cancelled.

Frankly, I think ski trips are an appallingly divisive thing for school to do. It's very much for the haves and totally excludes the have nots as well as many kids with disabilities. All events should be much more accessible.

My child won't be home anyway he does not have a passport. It was more of a general thing. That if there was more notice. People who don't have much money may have had a chance.

It’s optional.
I would expect much more notice and the chance to pay in instalments. But Covid has made planning any trip in advance a bloody nightmare.

Depends. My school did a yearly ski trip, I think the two GCSE years could go. It was a large school, 400 kids per year, and maybe 30 kids went on the trip. It wasn’t divisive because no one else really paid it any attention, and such a small number went that there were 770 kids over the two years that didn’t go. I didn’t go, I’ve never been skiing in my life.

So what's your solution then? No one gets to go? The school subsidises the trip? (With what/from where?).

You know, in non Covid times, schools offer trips, it's not necessary to know what & when before you start to save!!

£800 is not expensive for a skiing trip. It might be more than some can afford, but in & of itself it's not expensive fir skiing.