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[quote=Anonymous]I am not any of the PP's, but here I go, wading in!

1) [i]Few kids out of the whole school will receive benefit from this.[/i]
Well, the trip is for fifth-graders, so realistically only fifth-graders will benefit. I assume the goal is for every subsequent class to take the trip when they are fifth-graders, so eventually every student will be offered the trip.

2) [i]What is the selling point to convince everyone that the whole school benefits from a dozen kids getting $50,000 to go on a trip to China? It isn't like 10 and 11 year olds are old enough to bring back knowledge, culture and wisdom to the rest of the school.[/i] Again, I think the idea is to have as many students as possible benefit directly by taking the trip themselves. I could see how they could bring back improved language skills or at the very least some talking points for cultural differences.

3) [i]How have these students had it harder since the beginning? Every one of our kids who started there have had multiple new teachers and many curriculum changes over the years. [/i] I'm guessing that the original thought was that this first class [b]has the hardest time raising the money[/b]; hence the $50,000 gift to help offset costs and make it affordable for more students. Other classes will theoretically have more time to raise money; hopefully with the result that money is not a factor in whether or not kids go on the trip.

Seriously, if you don't like the very idea of the trip, you should be objecting to that with other parents and the administration. What you're doing here is just nitpicking posts on DCUM, which isn't going to get you any satisfaction.[/quote]

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