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Here are a few examples -- just from this post.....won't bother to go through the other 17 pages
1) The PA was "forced" to change a date..... 
2) A group of parents "threw a fit".....
3) "Less than a third of the class is able to go".....
4) The Gala date was set before the trip date.....

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No offense, but PP is correct with all of the things you cited. Every one of these is true. [b]The date was announced in June[/b] and no one complained about a conflict of dates until a half dozen of them came to the September meeting. They derailed the agenda with a 20 minute tirade about how they deserved to be at the auction, too. I was there and it was embarrassing and uncomfortable to watch. If you were there you would have seen that plus the nonsense that came across the listserve after that. The whole school needed to change plans for the biggest fund raiser of the year to please the TEN parents going on a trip. It should also be noted that the trip wasn't even announced to the rest of the school until word leaked out some time in the summer, a couple of months after the PA announced the date.  As for the number of people attending, that is what [b]the school published on the portal[/b]. I guess it is possible the school is intentionally posted erroneous information, but that is a long shot.

Here is a news flash. The community is very divided about this trip. Like most controversial issues, some people are loud boosters and support it strongly, some are indifferent and others are silently and strongly opposed. I hear lots of friends talking that they want to help the kids who are in the top class because they've had it hard every single year, but they don't want to support this fund raising per se because they don't agree with the trip and the way it is being done. Every couple of days we are getting new notices about fund raisers for it, and now it is already starting with the younger classes. I guess I will hear about fund raisers at least twice a week for the next 5 years. [/quote]

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