To think this is really crap on the school?

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DC in year 7 has a reward trip to a shopping centre in a nearby city. It's a big one, tonnes of shops, cinema, crazy gold, arcades, food hall etc etc.

Trip is to reward good behaviour and they will be walking around unsupervised for the day.

We as parents had to provide them with money to spend throughout the day. Most of them want to go to the cinema, then food on top, drinks, spends for the shops/arcade.

When I was in school we got rewards for things like attendance but it was something like a chocolate bar! My parents were never expected to fork out cash so "school" could reward me.

AIBU to think this is pretty poorly thought out by the school especially with current times? I know a few parents have complained because they are already feeling the pinch and are now feeling pressure to magic up £££ for this, many are taking even around £50 with them!

So they arrive, teacher buggers off. Kids head straight for Costa and the vape shop. Random adult buys their vape kit (possibly for a fee). Kids leave centre and find location to vape. Spend rest of day tiktoking and updating their Insta stories.

What could possibly go wrong?

That's terrible! My kid wouldn't be going, we don't have spare money for stuff like that. And I would be telling the school exactly what I thought and why my kid wasn't going!

We had the same at school, we went to Manchester i think. But we all were given 25 pound and taken to lunch by the school.

I think its awful how schools put unneeded financial pressure on parents ☹

@Pazuzu

DS1 is going. Why shouldn't kids who behave etc get something for once?

The kids were buzzing for it and have been planning the day out since they found out about it.

A cinema trip is something they do normally. A day out without parents? Not happening. For one thing the local city centre is a druggie infested hovel. Where they are going is quite nice.

I think it's a good idea to actually reward the good kids for once. We can't limit everything just so it's fair for everyone.

I never went on school trips as we couldn't afford it. That's just how life is.

But the school isn’t giving them a reward , the parents are, so it’s not a reward for being ‘good’ it’s reward for having well off parents. Presumably if you don’t give them money they won’t be able to eat what about children on FSM . Also year 7s on their own all day in a shopping centre that they don’t know , do they have to check in at regular intervals , some of them may only be just turned 12 , a day with heightened excitement , sugary drinks , dares etc is a recipe at that age for fallings out and people getting getting lost .

Why doesn’t the school just organise a cinema trip

Absolutely tone deaf on the part of the school

That's a really shit "reward". It would cost much less to take them all to something interesting like a museum, hiking or a boat trip; it would even cost less than £50 to do a theme park, climbing centre, kayaking, quad biking, multi-activity day, team build activity like build a raft etc - expensive at least the kids would gain some sort of experience.