Another quick poll: should a primary school allow children to take handheld games consoles on a week-long school trip?

[Anna8888]

Yes or no.

No.

Ours did.

No

no

No.

Although I'm dithering between yes and no.

I say yes - god you'd let them if it were YOUR holiday! Give eveyone a chance to get some r and R.

Oh no i forgot - the teachers are supposed to be working 8 am till 10pm.

yes

It isn't a holiday. It is during term time and they do lessons etc.

No, no , no

If they do, the teachers obviously cannot be bothered to engage them. My dc's school went to Wales for the week and they were allowed to take only books, cards or board games. No gameboys/DS/mobile phones, ipods etc. The school said they should be able to talk to each other !!! I agree.

No. One the basis that I have seen it happen and one games console got broken by another child and another one was lost and a child was accused of stealing it.

I have nothing against consoles generally but think that they have no place at a school trip. They should have enough to occupy them.

Well not all NIGHT/Evening

no

will get lost/stolen/faught over/broken and cause misery

Well they didn't and weren't.

The reason I said no is because of the potential for lost/broken consoles, fighting over games etc etc.

gracecapello just noticed your post. Yes, I would on my holiday, but this is not a holiday - it's an educational trip for which the teachers are being paid and they should at least have the imagination & qualifications to entertain/occupy the kids.

I would be mighty p*ed off if my dc's school allowed them on a trip.

No. Could get lost, stolen, broken. Some have them, some don't. Anyway, they won't have time for handheld games. They'll be too busy singing round the campfire and building dens etc.

I said 'no' because the children should be able to excercise their imaginations and talk and play together. It is good for them to have to make their own entertainment instead of having it provided for them all the time. I imagine the teachers would take turns supervising them in the evenings.

And someone will lose or break their console and there will be a big fuss.

NO

ours said "If they are broken/lost tough titty"

Because not all will have them (or not all parents will be happy to let the games go on the trip), and the potential for them getting lost or damaged is huge.

THEY DIDN'T LOSE THEM OR BREAK THEM.

LISTEN TO ME

I used to take my walkman-complete-with-tape-recorded-off-Sunday's-night's-charts on residential trips as a kid. The fact I needed an extra bag just to carry the headphones is neither here nor there

I broke my leg falling out of a tree ona school trip. I should have listened to my mother when she told me to leave my legs at home just in case I broke them.