School trips abroad. If we say no to going on the trip, how will this effect DD?

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DD is in first year at secondary school and there is a trip abroad organised to learn the language and explore the city. They will be Travelling by coach overnight and then ferry, followed by a week of activities, coming home 5 days later.

They are going to a country where DD is already fluent, as DH is from this country so it will be no advantage for that.
Also I'm not keen on the idea of a coach overnight but I havent at all put my concerns on to DD.

She isn't too fussed either way, but if we decide that she isnt going, will it be a big disadvantage to her?
Thank you for any ideas and thôughts.

My ds didn't go on the £1500 trip to Iceland with geography but still managed to get an A*

As teacher I never saw any educational value whatsoever in these trips.
Don't waste your money.

If she doesn't want to go and you see no advantage for her then don't bother. Tho of course the advantage of a trip like this is often the social aspect/chance to go away with your mates, as others say.

I think at primary the ethos is for everyone to go on trips. This is very much not the case at secondary.

I run a trip to Normandy for year 7s every year; last year a lot of the students asked me what would happen if they didn't go. It was fine. In fact we couldn't possibly have taken them all! Out of a possible 120 we could take a max of about 65 so I would have been in big trouble if they all wanted to go :)

I agree with others tho, check how many do go. BTW we go overnight on a coach too - this is so that we don't waste a precious day of the trip actually just getting there.

At DD's state school, everyone went on the Y7 trip to Europe.
It was a big confidence boost, helped friendships and tied into languages, art and history topics at school
I'm not sure if the take up will continue to be high for the Y8 trip.

At dd1's school they did a whole year residential (in the UK) at the ends of y7 and y9 and these were seen as very important that everyone went, and loads of notice (I think we had the first meeting about the y9 one in y8) was given to make sure all practicalities/finances/etc could be sorted out.

All other trips, and all trips for my kids at two other schools, have been very restricted on numbers, e.g. one coach load, or about 30 if flying (have just had a letter back from dd3's school about a humanities trip to Italy - 28 places for a year of 240 - clearly very nice if you go, but not at all an issue if you don't!). They've all been "put your name down, names will be pulled from a hat if oversubscribed". So all entirely optional. DD2 did a French work experience exchange, ds went to CERN and the WW1 Battlefields, dd3 is about to do a Battlefields trip. Between the four of them there are all sorts of trips they haven't done, such as skiing, Spain, Germany, France, theatre trips, etc etc.

It's not all about the educational value. I was never allowed on any overseas school trips even though the money could have been found if my parents had allowed me to go. ALL my friends went on both trips and I really felt left out of all the in jokes etc. I was really talented (national prize winning) in one of the subjects related to a trip and my teachers kept telling me I should be going. But my parents didn't see the value in it. If my DC want to go on a trip like this I will move heaven and earth to let them as I know how sad I was about not being able to go.