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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am a teacher and used to teach at an international school in the DC area where overnight trips of this sort were common in elementary school.   We did not take parents along as chaperones; however, children were very well supervised and also well behaved, and they obeyed the teachers.  We also had a mandatory parents information night, gave the parents a detailed schedule, and clearly had thought through the whole trip.

That's the key to me -- how well organized do you think the trip is, and how competent are the teachers?   Are they having an orientation meeting, and if so, is it well organized?   Do they understand concerns parents may have and address them up front?  You can really trust your gut on this I think.

The fact that only half the parents send their children on this trip would make me a bit cautious.    It doesn't sound like everyone is comfortable with this type of trip.  The fact that you don't know yet which teachers will be on the trip would make me believe that it isn't that organized.  Although probably they ned half the teachers to stay back to teach the kids who aren't going.

Just because some schools do trips like this well, doesn't mean that all trips will go well.  And it's not the end of the world if your child doesn't go. [/quote]

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