Sending your child to London



Just a straw poll as I'm proper fummin about something!

If you had a child in Year 6 (age 10-11), would you be willing to send them on a school trip to London? It would include travelling down by train, staying in a Youth Hostel for two nights and visiting popular tourist attractions by Tube.

No. Most certainly not
 
I was sending her on a trip there, but it's been cancelled as other parents are scared of terrorists.
There is more chance of being injured or killed on the transportation to get there and back, or even on the way to school every day, than being a victim of terrorism. Some parents just like to be seen as protective, rather than actually thinking things through.
 
My daughter's 11 my ex wife phoned me last year and asked if i was fine with daughter going London with school i said of course i was and asked if she was...(my ex wifes foreign not that thats relevant. i dont think)she said yeah but lots of other parents were refusing to let there kids go and she wondered why? Anyway jasmine went enjoyed herself and came home safe
 
Just a straw poll as I'm proper fummin about something!

If you had a child in Year 6 (age 10-11), would you be willing to send them on a school trip to London? It would include travelling down by train, staying in a Youth Hostel for two nights and visiting popular tourist attractions by Tube.
Dont think so not in todays climate

So kids shouldn't go to London?
Wouldnt allow mine without me in tow
 
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I was sending her on a trip there, but it's been cancelled as other parents are scared of terrorists.
The exact same thing happened when I was in the fourth year juniors (age 11) in the June before moving on to senior school.
My brother’s year went to Edinburgh. Then the next two years went to London. Then my year was all set to go to London but the IRA let off some bombs and people started dropping out one by one till the trip was cancelled. We ended up going to Edinburgh instead. There were less places as it was organised late but those who hadn’t dropped out (me!) got first shot. A week away for 36 quid.

Had a great time and a ridiculous amount of freedom to go roaming around the city unchaperoned. We stayed at the Arden House hotel just the other side of Carlton Hill. Every night we had ‘shopping time’ and as long as we made it back to the Wimpey Bar on Princes Street at 8.30 pm to be counted we were OK. There was over thirty of us - a bus full - and only two staff!
 
Just a straw poll as I'm proper fummin about something!

If you had a child in Year 6 (age 10-11), would you be willing to send them on a school trip to London? It would include travelling down by train, staying in a Youth Hostel for two nights and visiting popular tourist attractions by Tube.
Yes of course, what would any reason not to be?

:?:

What?

So because the majority of people did something, it’s the right thing to do?

The parents are doing nothing but responding based on horrifically biased opinions and not facts.

If they didn’t want their child in danger, they’d not let them out of the house.

Like I said - they’re more likely to die on the way to school than to be involved in a terror attack.
And they also wouldn't let them stay in the house; after all deaths from knives, electrocution, murder, suicide, obesity & related mortality, fire etc. are all higher (both in total quantity and rate) in the house than being stabbed to death by death by a Muslim in London.

No. Most certainly not
Why

I was sending her on a trip there, but it's been cancelled as other parents are scared of terrorists.
Buy every parent in the class a copy of Dan Gardner's "Risk" - it'll set you back the same cost as her trip would have and hopefully stop the thickies from being so dense in the future again x
 
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Our junior school Christmas parties involved Scottish country dancing. We were paired up and had to do the gay gordons etc. No idea why they thought that was a fun party afternoon as everyone hated it!

In the last year juniors, it was amazing because we were allowed disco lights on and danced to Agadoo and Superman etc :lol:

It must be a cultural thing as country dancing is quite well accepted in Scotland. been to a few weddings and the nightime do contains a lot of country dancing. I think it is more of a social dancing with lots of contact with others, so brings people together. A lot more kilts being worn as well
 
Kids aged 10 travelling in the tube with only a few minders?
That would pull on my heartstrings big time tbh.

I see school groups in London daily. Many far younger than 10. It really isn't rocket science. No more than shuttling them round on any outing they have

could whack them in a premier inn or something but a hostel, no chance

A hostel is best place for school kids. They are set up for groups and handle them day in day out.

A premier Inn could have kids over several floors etc and hard to keep track of plus all you don't know who else is staying in the accomodation.

It's not a homeless shelter.

I hadn't realised just how insular and out if touch home was until I read this. f***ing hell.

To be fair I know people 20 miles outside in Epping where they have the same attitude
 
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these parents who are stopping the kids because of the fear of threats are doing exactly what the terrorists want. add to that, what are they teaching the children, 1. run away from threats 2. nasty terrorists making threats so I couldn't go away on a school trip. a great deal of moral fibre needs to be dished out here
 

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