Child left on coach on school trip!

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Has anyone else seen this?!

The poor child. (They went to a show in London, drove to hotel, child was left locked on coach alone overnight , not noticed til the next day)

Child must have been terrified. And to think they had no idea they were a child down. What if something worse had happened- or he was wandering in London. They wouldn't have known.

I'm truly shocked this could happen in these days and can't imagine how the school can run trips in future...

We had a trip to France years ago where we were staying 6 kids to a cabin. We were allowed to go about a theme park on our own (y7) and get the bus back to the accommodation area. I had to tell the teachers that some of the kids hadn't made it back. The last bus had broken down or something.

I'm amazed the kid didn't just live stream it on TikTok.

My school accidentally left someone at the services once. The coach went back for them at the next junction though. All night is a worrying amount of time to not realise you have lost a child!

It's been said repeatedly on this thread that the kid had fallen asleep. Those saying that it was for tiktok or a prank with friends smacks of victim blaming. The child was in the care of multiple responsible adults who failed on multiple occasions to notice him missing. It doesn't matter whether he was tapdancing up and down the bus aisle all night and filming it for Only Fans, he should have been noticed missing and found quickly by those acting in loco parentis, and you all know it. Give over.

Yes absolutely. And a 10/11 year old may well do silly pranks but the adults are there to supervise.

It says on one of the fb pages that the kids were told not to talk to the press after as they'd be stirring up "fake news." And there's tons of phtoos of the trip, and a video on their fb page?!?!?

I work at a large tourist attraction and it's not uncommon for a child to be left in the venue while teachers get on the coach and dont realise they are child down.

Shocks me every time but it happens on a school trip at least twice a year at my place.

This kind of thing definitively happened years ago when checks were much more lax in general.

However, for this to happen these days - the amount of checks missed.

I can only assume that they didn't have one person allocated to certain/specific checks - so the child was somehow missed as one member of staff thought the other had done it and so on.

But so many people must have managed to miss their checks and/or miscount. Teachers, other members of staff, the coach driver...

And no other child mentioned the missing child which also seems really strange too. For so many children not to notice or speak our]t, the whole night - that's unusual ime.

I can only assume the children didn't have mobile phones on them either - more likely to be the case with primary school age - so didn't/couldn't call anyone. Nor manage to attract anyone's attention passing by.

I've been in school trips and you usually spend half the time there counting children in, out, on and off of everything.

It's clearly happened - the reports are there.
But wow - some major mistakes made!

I find it odd that the other children didn't speak up when he was missing from his allocated bed.

That makes me think that the child involved and at least one other convicted it and when staff were counting children the mate covered or replied for both of them or made an excuse child was in the toilet etc.

When my son went on a school trip to France one of his classmates got left on the coach and woke up in the dead of night in a car park in Paris. IIRC he was returned to their hotel by the police.

This was Poole Grammar School... about 20 years ago.

That is shocking. A trip I went on the teacher forgot to do the headcount and walked back to the station with most of the kids while I was still with my group of 6 inside the museum! And no I wasn't late getting back to the meeting point.

He was horrified when I called him on the emergency mobile phone to ask where they were. Luckily the kids were with an adult but it seemed remiss not to notice here were 6 missing!

But this - missing overnight is absolutely horrendous.

I can understand how in the dark a sleeping kid could be missed, as much as it shouldn’t happen

i don’t get how their roommates didn’t notice

@StillWantingADog I can understand why this thread was of interest when it was in the news in July.

I don't get why it needs reviving over 4 months later.

Wow guilty as charged

this did come up in “active”- I don’t normally go looking for zombie threads !

I'm curious as to whether anything "happened" as a result of this or if anything changed. Or what exactly happened.
But I think it was all buried!

I know it's a zombie thread now but didn't when I went to look the school up on Facebook. It being November and all the first words I came across were:

Lest we Forget

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ha brilliant!

I once left a child at the Eiffel Tower. We were halfway to our next destination (on the coach) when I realised. Another teacher had miscounted, his friends didn’t mentioned that he wasn’t there. I got off the coach and sprinted back. He was in the meeting place, thank you, had been alone about 20 minutes and had decided to stay up top when his group came back down. I was so appalled at myself and him! That was a thousand years ago. I’ve been paranoid ever since and do all head counts/checks myself.

My policy has been to give all students a laminated card (they took photos of it last trip and I got them to add it to their contacts too) of the school mobile that we take so they can phone if needed. Maybe the 9 year olds wouldn’t have phones, but my lot-12 or above-all do. Never lost or left anyone since, although a member of staff decided to just piss off and do his own thing on a foreign trip. I was furious.