Poor dd2 and her friends, been stuck on a coach for hours today

[nutcracker]

We are in brum and they were all going to London to the Tutankhamun exhibition.

They left school on the coach at 7am and got stuck on the motorway due to an accident, and didn't arrive in London until just before 1pm.

They were supposed to be back at 6:30 but now they are saying 8pm.

Actually poor teachers too, coach full of 7/8 yr olds who are bored, not my idea of fun LOL

I think i am just going to send a note in stating how i understand that the traffic was not under their control but that generally the trip doesn't sound as if it was very well planned, and that imo it is completly ludicrous for there to have been no loo.

Bless her. I hope she had a kinda nice day anyway. A note expressing your opinion on the whole thing is probably all you need to do, I'm sure the parents of the sick child and the soiled child will say enough! I can't get over those two! How awful for them and for the parents stuck at home, totally powerless.

Oh, poor thing nutty. Glad she is safe home now.
I wish more schools would use trains instead of the smelly elderly coaches they always wheel out for school trips.
You'd have been in London in an hour and half, I think - and a perfectly manageable walk from Euston to the BM (IMO)

Ridiculous distance for a school trip at their age IMHO - and no loo on the coach - even more ridiculous.

That'll put them off school trips for life I would imagine.

Erk, but they were coming to Greenwich, weren't they. That is a slog

I highyl doubt that a trip like that will be attempted with kids of that age again.

I have written a note just expressing that I am dissapointed in the loo facilities etc, but I am waiting to see if they are sent home with any kind of letter of explanation from the head before I hand it in.
I highly doubt that the head will say anything at all, but we'll see.

Dd2 was very tired this morning, but I sent her in, as it is the xmas fair today and so they only be sorting things out for that.

She said she did enjoy the exhibition, and she thinkalso said that she thinks Oxford is a lovely place.

Sorry about typos, am half asleep myself today lol.

What were they doing in Oxford btw ?

Oxford is where they stopped off on the way back to change coach drivers as the first one had hit the legal limit on his driving hours.

ah of course . Mind you if they went into Oxford itself to do so that would have delayed them, traffic there is horrendous iirc.