School trips are a good idea in principle and my children have been on all sorts.
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My worry is that school trips do seem to be proliferating at an alarming rate.
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Francis Gilbert, a secondary school teacher for 20 years, agreed permission and insurance paperwork could often put teachers off organising school trips.
School trips to the centre offer activities including orienteering and adventure sports.
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Ministers said school trips could broaden children's horizons but fear of prosecution was too often used as an excuse not to organise them.
And we really, genuinely respect their support and need the support of these helpers, on school trips, for sports, for all sorts of things within schools.
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Some 19% of children in poverty said they had missed out on school trips and 14% said they did not have a warm coat to wear in the winter.
"There is no reason - and never was - why children should be prevented from going on school trips by over-enthusiastic misinterpretation of rules, " he said.
Many people who grew up in Waterbury before 1970 remember school trips to the Mattatuck Museum to see the 10, 000-piece button display, Charles Goodyear's rubber desk and colonial era tools and clothing.
And secondary school teacher Craig Macartney, from Suffolk, said he had noted that increasing numbers of children from middle to lower income households were missing school trips as families struggled to meet the basic cost of living.
It draws on earlier research from Save the Children which detailed the effects of poverty on UK children's wellbeing, with parents cutting back on food (61%), skipping meals (26%), not replacing children's outgrown shoes (19%) and winter coats (14%), missing school trips (19%) and having to borrow to make ends meet (80%).
The pilot schemes, which could include controversial plans to charge better-off parents for school bus trips, are scheduled to run until 2011.
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The area is popular for school field trips because students can hunt for fossils in the soft sandstone cliffs, said Michael Rutzick, who was at the park Wednesday and lives in nearby Mendota Heights.
But a lot of activities, such as chaperoning school field trips, helping a sick child make a collage, reading to older people who have lost their eyesight or participating in an AIDS walk with friends, can be lots of fun.
After countless trips back to the school and even more phone calls I eventually got that bill wiped.
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The child poverty charity highlights the range of extra school expenses faced by families, including trips, swimming and music lessons.
Lessons include in-school visits from local entrepreneurs and field trips to Junior Achievement centers where kids learn financial lessons such as opening a bank account.
But while those two have gone on on to Ryder Cup success, Storm has made four trips to the tour qualifying school and even worked in a cream cake factory four years ago.
Better school, which we cannot afford, some trips, like abroad, but that is also, uh, out of our price range.
They find out that their school has lost its funding for music, field trips and some of their other favorite activities.
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Government can build the best schools, with the best teachers -- but we can't run the PTA, or chaperone those field trips, or mentor those kids after school, or have them sit down and do their homework at night.
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The firm arranges affordable trips for families in the Cheshire area during school holiday periods.
Lake Highlands coach Jay Higgins is the longest-serving prep baseball coach in Texas, having taken the job in 1967 (four years after the school opened), scored 783 wins and 25 state playoffs trips (including last year).
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Hundreds of thousands of young people are going abroad to volunteer each year, as part of school requirements, to build their CVs, and as part of gap year trips.
One supposes it's difficult for a 17-year-old to take business trips while keeping up a 4.0 average at Solomon Schechter School, playing point guard on the basketball team and laying out the school yearbook.
"We don't have armored cars like the government does, " said Fairfax, who noted that school officials will meet this week to discuss how the new guidelines might affect study-abroad trips.
Field trips will be arranged so prospective students can shadow other students to get a feel for a school, he said.
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