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?

Not in my experience they don’t.

I have never, in 30 years of teaching, heard of this. Ever.

Who on earth covers their lessons if they are being given time off in term time? In 30 years of organising trips, giving up weekends to do Duke of Edinburgh, etc, etc (in many different schools) I've never been offered 'time off' in term time.

The teacher in unpaid for accompanying your teenager, they're not in it for a free holiday it's anything but.

DH has just come back back from a ski trip where the teens decided to balcony hop at night. Not relaxing.

I’m pretty shocked at some of the replies here if it was mum saying we took DS and two mates to Disneyland Paris for a break but one of the kids was left and sick they text us but we were in a queue for a ride and it took two hours to get to them, would the parent of the child not be up in arms

Yes complain. Appalling behaviour by teacher. Need to check the risk assessment for the trip to see what the protocol should have been in this sort of situation.
I remember day trips from school at 16+ being about staying with buddies and a teacher being at a set place to be checked in with as needed/as required.

Really?!!

He should probably find some new friends tbh.

😂😂😂😂😂 what a load of shite

Hmm. All sounds very strange. ‘THE teacher was in a queue for a ride’. Have you ever tried to leave a queue for a ride? How long does that take?

Where were the other teachers? Why was she ‘trying to find him’? Had he fallen asleep? Phone battery died?

I simply don’t believe that the teachers didn’t care about him and just left him.

How on Earth would you know? 🧐

The parks usually have first aid. He can go and explain the issue - they may be able to give him gravol or the country’s equivalent. Alternatively they may tell him the closest place/pharmacy he can go get something

Your son sounds a proper simp. Why's he phoning his mummy to say hes unwell.

@Maddy70

Aren't you charming. 😡

Why was he in the Disney village and not in the theme park? It can take a long time to get to the village from the far end of the park.

Lots of presumptions going on here:- Teachers were probably with Sen kid; son was hungover; son should have found the others himself or gone back to the hotel; teachers are worked off their feet…. What it boils down to is a child was left for two hours while vomiting and feeling ill. It doesn’t matter that he was 16. It is negligent. How did they know he didn’t have appendicitis? Doesn’t matter if teachers were queueing, having coffee or whatever. Somebody should have gone and found him. That is their job.

Why is he not locked in a room revising for his exams? Bad parent alert 😂🫢

😁

I work in a senior school and we would never allow this. We take our year 7s to Alton Towers and the teachers agree a rota for at least one of them to be in a cafe for anyone who needs them, and if they needed to go somewhere they would get someone to cover them or ask another teacher to go.
For those saying he is old enough to look after himself, teachers are in loco parentis in this situation so would you leave your child if they called you distressed and sick when you were within 15 mins or so of them?

Sounds terrible but I am astonished that any school would take Yr11 on a holiday to Disneyland in the Easter holidays. Most are running revision sessions. I also find it weird that there are enough parents willing to send their children on this trip to make it viable.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

They have got revision sessions for the rest of the Easter holidays to be fair

no but some do, alcohol or illegal drugs account for more than half of illness among 16 year olds on school trips in my experience

I agree you sent him away with teachers not on his own with friends. He’s not an adult and the teachers should be doing their job looking after the kids not acting as if they’re on holiday.

@Ophy83 what is this unicorn school?

I'm ignoring the absolute batshit responses and just wanted to say his symptoms sound exactly like mine when I get severe motion sickness. D&V and I feel soo tired I have to go to sleep! I also get really hungry, but that could just be me! It makes me really ill and I feel awful for ages after. (I was in bed for 2 days once after sitting too close to the screen in the cinema!)

Have never come across a school like this before!

Are you a teacher or a parent?