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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something is not right about this situation. The school can't discriminate against students in the program because they can't afford to spend $1200 on a field trip. That's extreme and many middle and upper middle class families may even have an issue with that. It doesn't matter that this trip was discussed at a meeting discussing the magnet program. Students cannot be excluded from the magnet program because they don't have the money for this (or parents have other priorities, like more than one child) and they certainly should not be discouraged from applying to the program. There has to be something more to this than what the OP has posted.[/quote]

If you can't afford it, you're supposed to talk to the secretary, and then the magnet program coordinator sends out e-mails to the magnet program parents, saying, "Hey, we (still) need (more) money, please write checks," until there's enough money for the kids whose parents can't afford it to go..

Really.

It's possible that parents keep their kids out of the magnet program because they're worried about paying for the 8th grade field trip, but I don't know. [/quote]

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