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[quote=Anonymous]My kid went on a MS trip last year.

It was entirely run by a private company (which handled things like air and hotel reservations and hired a local tour guide.)  There was a company website that helped with logistics.  But the head teacher was the main contact (I never spoke to or heard from the company; the teacher did all of the info sessions, etc.).

There was a chaperone for, I think, every 4 or 5 kids (this was MS; I'm guessing perhaps fewer for HS).  The head teacher chose chaperones, who I think were all employed at MCPS but they wouldn't have had to have been-- not all were from our school; some were teachers at some other school. The chaperones get their trips paid for (which means that the kids' fees are enough to cover travel arrangements for those chaperones).

My kid loved it.  I mean, loved it. Other kids were homesick.  A couple of kids misbehaved and there was a threat that they would be sent home but they weren't (and I've no idea how that would have worked logistically, which is probably why they were not.)

From a distance, it seemed like pretty much any other tour group (bus tours between cities; stops at castles and cathedrals and whatnot) but with friends (which is really what makes a trip good or bad).[/quote]

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