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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Costa Rica trip is a very expensive boondoggle.  We have not yet found the money to take our own family vacation to Costa Rica but felt incredible pressure to pull together the funds for our kid to do it because there is alot of peer pressure on it.

Honestly I'm shocked that these trips are still happening - its a crazy expensive burden to put on parents for something that is not very educational.  Think of the other things that money could do to support extra curricular activities throughout the entire year at Deal.  Maybe the Costa Rica trip was worth it when it was 50 students.  Now its just a ridiculous, expense trip that subsidizes vacation for 20+ Deal teachers and staff members.  [/quote]

My personal experience is that is doesn't have to be a crazy expensive burden on parents. We started talking about these trips and the associated cost in 6th grade and told our kid that we would pay half and they were responsible for paying the other half + spending money. My kid spent 2.5 years babysitting, petsitting, raking leaves, watering plants and more odd jobs because they were stoked about the trip and wanted to make it happen and they did. 
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They also do fundraising and have grants for kids whose families can't afford it.  My kids all did Chinese which is smaller but the trip was definitely worth it.  One of mine is spending the semester abroad right now in Beijing so they become fluent and minor in Chinese.  They were mainly motivated by that trip.   [/quote]

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