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[quote=Anonymous]Background: our school is doing a very large, 2-week international trip during the school year for 5th graders this year. [b]The positives of a great international experience are obvious[/b], so I will only lay out the negative from conversations with other parents surrounding the topic. 
-The trip is very expensive and several small fund raisers are being planned, although the first payment was already due last month before those began. 
-The trip was open to the whole grade but about 2/3 of the class declined. 
- Parents who declined seemed to be in one of 2 camps: either they were not terribly pleased with the idea of sending kids on a huge international trip without parents at age 10 or 11, or they are worried about finances. 
-It has already begun to cause tension between the children who are and who are not going.
-This is happening in the school year and disrupting the year for both the students who go and those who cannot.

Questions for schools who have done this type of thing: 
1. Do any other schools do large international trips at such a young age? If not, what age does the school do trips?
2. Does your school do international trips during the school year?
3. How do they handle the kids who won't be able to go? It is inevitable that some won't be able to go, but does it always have to come down to the haves and have-nots? 
4. Do they do huge amounts of fundraising? 
5. If so, when do they start fundraising and how do they raise huge sums of money ($3500 per child in 6 or 7 months)?

I know it's DCUM and it'll be very difficult, but please, please, please let's try out best to leave school bashing out of this. I'm just looking to see how other schools do it and if our school is an out-lier on this.
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