Can't afford Christmas/summer good behaviour school trip then come in uniform and work all day.

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Possibly being a bit sensitive.
School run two trips a year which are not educational but purely a treat for good behaviour, usually a theme park and Christmas markets. My children are new to the school.

If you can't afford or can't go for whatever reason then you stay behind with the ones who have been excluded from the trip, have to come in in full uniform when everyone else is in home clothes, they get a special breakfast etc and you have to sit there while they do etc and work all day.
Even though they have to work all day they don't even put on a proper education. Most of the school is out so we've been told on the summer trip they did some worksheets with a teacher in the morning and then spent most of the day on their phones.

AIBU to think they could stump to a couple of dvds and a tub of popcorn for those left behind?

If there were only five in school that didn't go including your own children and yours was a moral objection as you say then a fundraiser for three children is a bit extreme. Maybe they didn't want to go or their parents were making a moral objection too.

I fundamentally disagree with this kind of school trip anyway. It's not educational, and good behaviour can be rewarded in much better ways within the school environment. To exclude people from it because they can't afford it makes an even bigger mockery of it.

It wasn't a moral objection. I couldn't afford it as I've said.
I could have borrowed it off my Mum but couldn't have warranted £30 plus spends this close to Christmas when we are fairly skint.

I said about fundraising because I would imagine on the more expensive treats the numbers will be bigger.