To wonder who funds a teacher's school trip

[iwasjustwonderingreally]

My daughter went skiing with her school in February half term.

Four teachers accompanied them.

Do teachers pay for themselves, or a contribution, (I appreciate they are working though), or is the cost to the pupil inflated to cover the cost of the teachers?

@Silverclocks

Going on a school trip is hard work, I don't think anyone doubts that, but that doesn't also mean no teacher enjoys it and chooses to go.

The really depressing thing about these threads is how many teachers seem to despise their work, the children and the families they serve which, which isn't my experience IRL at all.

Honestly, no one's indispensable, if it's that awful do yourself and the children a favour and go and do something else.

I do wonder if, in part, the recruitment crisis is self fulfilling. (Some) teachers seem determined to paint the blackest picture possible, whilst continuing to take the salary, they're not helping anyone.

My lived experience is that teaching is hard work, but the vast majority of teachers enjoy their work (most of the time, the same as in any other industry) but a handful of these determined to be miserable can really drag a school down.

Not quite sure where you got that from on this thread? I love my job and the trips are satisfying but from a professional point of view - not from a free jolly perspective. Teachers on this thread have merely pointed out that it’s work and that they are giving up their holiday time - no one has said they don’t like their jobs.

You should have asked the question differently.

AIBU to expect teachers responsible for children not to be drunk? Of course YANBU (and even they had paid for themselves, it's irrelevant, the point is that they were in a position of responsibility and care)

Very different to AIBU to ask if teachers' expenses should be paid for - which is a different question and clearly YABU to that one (even to ask it - obviously teachers are paid for)

I’ve always assumed parents pay for teacher’s places too. Guess it’s like paying for childcare.

@FrippEnos

ldontWanna

Why are you so insistent that the teachers must be in the wrong?

I have organised/ lead and been on many trips in my years of teaching and I have only ever know of one teacher get completely hammered.

That teacher was investigated and suspended and was never allowed out of a trip again (even to local theme parks).

And there is no insistence that teachers can never be wrong, just that it is investigated fairly and proof brought forward.

I'm not . I'm just accepting that it is a possibility, unlike many posters.

[quote Lavenderlid]@Silverclocks
I had to stop reading when you wrote "lived experience"[/quote]
So you read the majority of her post then ...

I'm sure their costs are absorbed by the children. Teachers definitely don't pay at the school I work at.

@whattodo2019

I'm sure their costs are absorbed by the children. Teachers definitely don't pay at the school I work at.

And you thought in two days and 481 posts no one would have said that, so you needed to say it.