Child unwell on school trip

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My son is currently on a school trip to Disneyland. He started to feel unwell with stomach pains and vomiting. He got split up from he’s group and was left alone in Disney village. I managed to get hold of the teacher to let her know and she said she would go to him. My son then text me and said she said she Can’t go to him because she is queuing for a ride. Nobody bothered to go look for my son for two hours. Aibu to make a complaint about this and take it further?

Your poor lad, I’m glad he’s feeling better now. I think one of the teachers should’ve gone to him sooner for sure, especially as the hotel was a coach ride away and he couldn’t just take himself off to lie down, just sit on his own feeling awful 😞

"Too busy on her holiday" oh boy, indeed. I can't wait for my week long holiday with a bunch of 10/11 yr olds next month! 😂

You must be so proud of your perfect child

Disneyland ain't a holiday for no one

Ffs 🙄

OP I would be horrified if this happened to my child. A 16 year old who is ill away from home still needs help and I'm sure mine would have called me in this situation too. I have been on school trips and there should always have been someone available to go to someone feeling ill and who couldn't move due to vomiting. Is he ok now? His confidence will have been shaken will being left alone feeling vulnerable. I'd be upset with his friends too for leaving him.
Does he get home tomorrow? I hope he's feeling better and is happy when he gets home. I would definitely be asking about their risk assessments and how things were dealt with. Good luck going forward. I hope your son is happy when he gets back.

Teacher here. One of the members of staff on the trip should have gone to make sure he was ok. I'd ask the school what the risk assessment said about pupils being ill when at the park.

Maybe I was a bit harsh describing it as a holiday for the teachers but I’m amazed that they thought queuing for a ride was more of a priority then Seeing to a sick child in there care

These comments are mental. The teachers are still to look out for their pupils welfare on a trip abroad when they are under 18 and an ill child alone should be a priority because he is a child. He should never have been left for two hours and yes I would be complaining, it's totally negligent. What if it was appendicitis or something? Some of you are completely devoid of empathy.

The staff probably have kids with special needs that need their support.

Don’t complain. We have hardly any school trips now after a horrific accident occurred the teachers just won’t do it.The teacher leading that trip was very badly affected. Dd is currently on her first ever school trip that isn’t a local residential and she’s year 10

That is absolutely normal.
Are they staying at Disney land?

There should be a designated meet up spot. Why hasn’t he gone there?

Also, how did you message the teacher in Disney?

Whatever his age he’s on a school trip with teachers in charge. Teachers have a duty of care.
Teacher should have left the queue to go to your son. Yes he might just have motion sickness from a ride but it’s still the teacher’s job to check and decide action.

Any idea why he was sick OP? Without wanting to alarm, when I read it was a 16yr old on a residential holiday in Europe I immediately thought hungover..

If he is at Infirmary with qualified carers? What about the responsibility for the other students in teacher's care?

I was VERY ill with travel sickness on a school trip to France 20+ years ago now and no one bothered to make sure I was ok at all. My friend phone her mum using a phone card because she thought I was dying 😂😂

That's what I was thinking and just wondering regardless to the child being 6 or 16 surely if someone has said they are ill there is duty of care to ensure the person is found and taken to a safe space so to speak and to get checked over. 99. 9 per cent sure its nothing serious but the care surely still has to be there. We'd do that for friends on a trip let alone a teacher on a school trip surely ??

That's rather a presumptious comment! Why can't he just be ill for the sake of being ill?! Not all teens are irresponsible and go round getting really drunk.

I’d expect better from staff. I hope your son is ok OP

The teacher may be queuing with some other students that have sen or other issues. They are not having a free holiday they are supervising yours and other peoples children in their holiday

Your son sounds a proper simp. Why's he phoning his mummy to say hes unwell.. why isnt he using the contact number of the teacher in charge (yes he will have had that number)

No idea came on suddenly with diarrhoea, vomiting and pain in he stomach. He was struggling to stay awake for the rest of the night and fell asleep in the park

?? At our school if teachers give up their free time to go on trips like PGL they get the equivalent time off in term time

That’s not the point though. He’s on a school trip under the care of his teachers. They should have checked on him and got him back to his accommodation and arranged medical treatment if necessary. At the very least assessed him. I would expect that from my family or friends if I was on holiday to be honest. You don’t leave unwell people on their own in a theme park.

Whilst I agree it would have been good if a member of staff had got to your son reasonably quickly, do you actually think the teacher was stood in a queue, by herself, to go on Thunder Mountain?

Residential trips are exhausting, challenging, in this case using holiday and rely totally on the goodwill of teachers to run them.

I guarantee she wasn’t stood in the queue for Pirates of the Caribbean, sipping a coffee and thinking ‘Nah, don’t give a stuff that little Johnny is ill, I can’t lose my place in the queue!’