Not to go to evening at school about yr 6 trip?

[deaddei]

I can't bear the parents wanting minute details about the insurance policy, health and safety regs and why they can't take mobile phones.
DD has been to the same place, the school will give me a list of items needed and I want to sit quietly with a glass of wine and book/MN/long soak in bath while dh and ds are out at cricket all evening.

sounds fine. i did the same when DD2 went on the same trip DD1 had been on 2 years before.
skip it and have wine. i'm sure if anything important occurs someone will tell you.

I'm sure the teachers that are giving up their evening feel the same... you should go along to show your interest and support and to find out the details of the trip, it might be different to last time. The teachers will say their bit then you can nip out the door during "question time" !!

I don't go to these things, they're for needy types, have the wine instead.

Thank you. (love your name BTW!!)
I also don't want yr 6 parents patronising me on my choice of school [hnn]

but you would probably moan if you weren't properly and completely informed about the trip if they didn't have the meeting, no?

I don't think they are for needy types at all, I think they are for parents to find out what their child will do on their trip. Weird not to be interested, IMVHO

I think it would be polite to ask the teacher if they thought you should go along, just as a way of expressing that whilst you appreciate their giving up their evening, you trust them to look after dd and don't need soothing.

On the subject of needy parents, I went on the school trip this year as a helper (not because I'm needy but because I fancied the trip!). There were parents who waited to wave their DCs off on the coach, rather than drop them at class like anyone else. These are 9yos, who were going 20 miles away and would be back by teatime at the latest.

I can't wait to see them when they all go camping next year

Kbear - I would go too, just to find out what was going on - not because I felt that I needed reassuring. But deadei knows the score because her dd has already been on the same trip.

It will be a requirement for the school to hold the meeting and provide this information, but yes, I can understand you not feeling totally inspired by the thought of it - I'm sure the staff would rather be home with a glass of wine too

Kbear- I am not a moaning sort- I trust the teachers, and give them my full support.
And as dd has done the same trip I know what they'll be doing.
I've already said to the school I can't make it,and they are giving ds the handouts tomorrow.
I have been to so many of these, I am meeting-ed out.

Like you, I went to one when DS was going, DD then goes to the same place, she will already have asked any question she wants (without a doubt!) nothing has changed, why would I go again? I'm interested, I'm supportive but I know the details!

As a teacher, I was never that worried about parents coming to these meetings - you generally got the parents of 'eldest' children going and the ones who wanted to nitpick about the finer details of arrangements. We never felt that the ones who had been before for other children and didn't turn up were missing anything. We knew they were happy!