To be disappointed with the school re trip

[pisspants]

I understand schools and teachers are busy and that it is great they have tried to organise a trip. I am upset on behalf of my dc though. There's an upcoming trip, details of which went out in one email over a month ago, with no further mentions or reminders about it. This week a follow up email went out regarding more details about what to wear for the trip etc which was the first I knew of the trip. I checked the online payment system and was no sign of it on there so called the school and they say the deadline has passed as the bus needed to know numbers etc a while back so my dc will have to miss the trip. I appreciate I missed one email which was sent in the middle of the day whilst I was working so didnt see it. It then got buried amongst all the crappy emails I get every day from everywhere I've ever bought anything from. Because of that my DC now misses the educational trip that almost the whole year is going on? I know I dropped a ball by not seeing the email but I would have expected a follow up email as a reminder of a payment deadline or something at the least?

There are two different types of trips.

One where the whole class is going and they need permission slips from everyone. Those ones will get chased up.

Then there are other ones which are not whole class and there are a limited number of places. The teacher won’t chase those up as once the places are filled then they are gone.

It sounds like this trip is the latter. The places have gone and it’s not up to the teacher to chase it up as it could be that your DC didn’t want to go.

@Sherrystrull

Sigh, she missed any important one so clearly her system isn't working. Whether she misses them all or just missed one is irrelevant. Changes are needed.

Sigh. Whether or not she should change her system is irrelevant to your point that she wouldn't have seen a reminder email so there would have been no point sending one. The fact that she did see the follow-up email suggests that she probably would have done.

@surreygirl1987 reign yourself in. I already said I wouldn’t expect it of a secondary school, we are talking about primary here.

I wouldn’t expect anything of a secondary school teacher other than mentioning it at the start of the lesson. You’ve intentionally used my quote out of context when saying ‘how do we know they haven’t done this’ but at no point did I say this would work for a primary anyway.

I’m not flogging a school, like I keep saying, they shouldn’t have to do anything to remind anyone. I just think that the school could have done something.

I’m not trying to complain about the school, I’m just trying to explain to some that parents do make mistakes, and the nasty tone taken by some on here (not you) implies that they never ever make a mistake, and that their child should suffer. I don’t believe any parent or child wants that, and whilst I think that it is the OP’s fault, it happens, and I think that the school should be more willing to try to help rather than see a young child be left out…would you want to see your primary age child ‘punished’ for your mistake

@surreygirl87…I think we actually agree, I don’t think the school are to blame. The only difference is that from a primary perspective I think they could have done more to help when they saw that there was a child missing on the list (particularly given the small numbers of primary children in classes). As far as secondary goes, that’s the child and the parent that have missed it so it’s ok for the child to see the consequences, and what secondary teacher would ever have the time to follow up on as many as 100-300 that they could have in just one year group…that could amount to 10s of people.

@Belladonna12, are you being deliberately dense or just obtuse?

Missing an email = change something so it doesn't happen again

Whether she misses them all or a few is neither here nor there. She's missed one that was important so needs to ensure she doesn't in the future.

It might be relevant that the OPs previous posts suggest this is a secondary school pupil, not primary.

I receive several messages and emails each week from my DC's school so I do feel your pain, but there would have also been a consent letter so you would uave had notification.

@Mollymoostoo the consent was in the original email, as a link to an online form

I was considering it from a primary school perspective, where my understanding is that it is one or two parents once or twice a year. I can’t believe for one minute that a primary school teacher would want to see a young child (with whom they spend all day, every week day) face the disappointment of missing out on a trip

I don't think the OP has said whether it's primary or secondary. Unless I've missed something?

Either way, I think it's quite laughable that you think that it would be one or two parents, once or twice a year.

I'm a cub leader (cubs are aged 8-10) and arrange up to 10 activities/camps per year that require parents to sign their cubs up. It's VERY frustrating how many times I have to chase up, and remind parents to sign up, return paperwork, make payments, etc. I only send reminders for the childrens' sake, but I'm lucky that I have time to do it, usually on a Sunday afternoon! While I know that it would be nice if teachers had time to follow up on every parent that doesn't reply, I can absolutely understand why some don't - it's very time consuming.

[quote Sherrystrull]@Belladonna12, are you being deliberately dense or just obtuse?

Missing an email = change something so it doesn't happen again

Whether she misses them all or a few is neither here nor there. She's missed one that was important so needs to ensure she doesn't in the future.

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I think you are being deliberately obtuse and/or dense. I haven't said that OP shouldn't change her system. It sounds like it would be a good idea to do that. I am disagreeing with your argument that there is no point in schools sending a reminder emails because people who miss one would miss the reminder too. Clearly that is not the case as evidenced by the fact that OP did see a follow up email. Most schools do send reminders so they obviously disagree with you too.

Most schools do send reminders so they obviously disagree with you too

To be fair, how can you possibly know that? None of the four schools that my children went to ever sent reminders (one primary, 3 secondary). Would it be safe for me to say that most schools do not send reminders?