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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I mean, we all like to go... Shredding!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I asked a kid I was teaching why their school trip was going to the States, and they said it was so they could combine it with a bit of culture (?) in New York?
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I was discussing this very topic with someone the other day. Trips to USA have one big plus…far harder/no access to booze!
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I believe a lot of schools go to the US because the legal drinking age is 21 and very strictly enforced. Much easier than looking after drunk teenagers in Europe
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| TommyJ wrote: |
| I believe a lot of schools go to the US because the legal drinking age is 21 and very strictly enforced. Much easier than looking after drunk teenagers in Europe |
Good point about the drinking age rules.
Another comment, knowing how schoolkids like to mess around I just hope that the schools don't take them to US ski resorts where the chairlifts aren't fitted with safety bars! (Yes, quite a few US chairlifts don't have safety bars fitted, and even when they are quite a few Americans are reluctant to use them).
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| Perty wrote: |
| I was discussing this very topic with someone the other day. Trips to USA have one big plus…far harder/no access to booze! |
That's pretty much my understanding from teachers I've spoken to.
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We've witnessed many British school kids trying to buy booze in our little supermarket in SC over the years. None were successful, in larger places they might have succeeded. They don't stay in our village now as the hotels that used to host the kids are now apartments and a more upmarket establishment, Also the law is much stricter.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The hotel dog ate their homework.
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I can’t help thinking there must be a bit more to this. How do you accidentally destroy 41 passports?
To paraphrase Lady Bracknell
“'To lose one passport, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 41 looks like carelessness.”
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| TommyJ wrote: |
I can’t help thinking there must be a bit more to this. How do you accidentally destroy 41 passports?
To paraphrase Lady Bracknell
“'To lose one passport, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 41 looks like carelessness.” |
It is not uncommon for confidential documents to be collected to be destroyed. Maybe someone threw them in the wrong pile.
I would expect a hotel generates a lot of confidential items like peoples names, addresses, bank card/credit card details, etc.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Gored wrote: |
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It was a 30 hour bus trip to France for my school trip.
How the are schools going to North America? No doubt the students parents are also paying for the Teachers to go on a jolly. |
MrsJ is a teacher. Now she’s not done a skiing trip but I can tell you that residential trips are definitely not a jolly. She comes back exhausted - basically working non stop for six days. Well above and beyond a normal working week.
And still there will be parents who find something to moan about to her…..
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@TommyJ, indeed....
I have a friend who has organised many ski trips for a large VI form centre
Friday PM get on coach at college
Saturday sleep all day on coach apart from clearing up coach from travel sickness
Sunday spend entire morning making sure everyone is in the right place, then spend afternoon in local A&E with boarding pupil with broken wrist
Monday spend entire morning making sure everyone is in the right place, then spend afternoon in local A&E with skiing pupil with knee injury
Tuesday spend entire morning helping pupil who has drunk too much the night before and rooting out all the drink in the rooms, then spend afternoon in local A&E with teacher who slipped on ice
Wednesday spend entire morning making sure everyone is in the right place, then spend afternoon in local A&E with skiing pupil with dislocated shoulder
Thursday spend entire morning making sure everyone is in the right place, then spend afternoon in local A&E with two skiing pupil with concussion
Friday free morning but then need to organise evening tobogganing, then spend entire night in A&E with pupil injured whilst tobogganing.
Saturday pack up and get into coach
Sunday arrive at Calais to find two pupils have left their passports in the hotel
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| We've witnessed many British school kids trying to buy booze in our little supermarket in SC over the years. None were successful, in larger places they might have succeeded. They don't stay in our village now as the hotels that used to host the kids are now apartments and a more upmarket establishment, Also the law is much stricter. |
How times change. My first time skiing as a 12yo was a school trip to Italy. First evening meal had two red and two white bottles of wine per table of 8 kids. Second night teachers scooped them up before any more damage could be done!
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| Gored wrote: |
| TommyJ wrote: |
I can’t help thinking there must be a bit more to this. How do you accidentally destroy 41 passports?
To paraphrase Lady Bracknell
“'To lose one passport, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 41 looks like carelessness.” |
It is not uncommon for confidential documents to be collected to be destroyed. Maybe someone threw them in the wrong pile.
I would expect a hotel generates a lot of confidential items like peoples names, addresses, bank card/credit card details, etc. |
To quote the article “It’s not like they’re just pieces of paper. Those are actual passports”!
And it’s in English. So can’t even say they don’t know these were passports!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Alastair Pink, when and where were you on a chair in the us that was not equipped with a safety bar? In my last few hundred days of skiing I can’t recall one. Note that I don’t quibble with your other point.
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@Doccam, I suspect prior visits from teacher asking them not to serve them alcohol, but to be fair, most of them looked too young to buy anyway. Hotels were English run too.
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The students should get T shirts printed “Shred slopes not passports”.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| @mr. mike, on a chair at Crested Butte (although it was some years ago). |
There was certainly a Chair with no safety bar when I was there in Jan 2018.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| TommyJ wrote: |
| Gored wrote: |
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It was a 30 hour bus trip to France for my school trip.
How the are schools going to North America? No doubt the students parents are also paying for the Teachers to go on a jolly. |
MrsJ is a teacher. Now she’s not done a skiing trip but I can tell you that residential trips are definitely not a jolly. She comes back exhausted - basically working non stop for six days. Well above and beyond a normal working week.
And still there will be parents who find something to moan about to her….. |
Who paid for her flight & accommodation? The School? Yourselves? The students?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Hells Bells, i got smashed in SC on a school trip - the 90s… so slack
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Brings back memories went on a school ski trip over 50 years ago and whilst in a cafe one pupil was complaining of a headache so teacher offered a disprin ,however we had all been told not to drink the water from the table so pupil popped it as advised in to a bottle of coca cola and vesuvious erupted!!! the ceiling walls and many tables with customers got covered in foam spray . A couple of years later went on a study tour to italy by bus ,florence ,,siena , rome etc ended up playing football against a crowd of lads from the local school cant remember who won but with our new pals afterwards went to a back street cafe , all including teachers from both schools went home well fuelled and the following day s trip was cancelled.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| mr. mike wrote: |
| @Alastair Pink, when and where were you on a chair in the us that was not equipped with a safety bar? In my last few hundred days of skiing I can’t recall one. Note that I don’t quibble with your other point. |
Loveland, Colorado, last week. And Silverton as well.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| TommyJ wrote: |
| Gored wrote: |
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It was a 30 hour bus trip to France for my school trip.
How the are schools going to North America? No doubt the students parents are also paying for the Teachers to go on a jolly. |
MrsJ is a teacher. Now she’s not done a skiing trip but I can tell you that residential trips are definitely not a jolly. She comes back exhausted - basically working non stop for six days. Well above and beyond a normal working week.
And still there will be parents who find something to moan about to her….. |
Who paid for her flight & accommodation? The School? Yourselves? The students? |
I would assume that the staff didn't pay, as they were at work. You surely don't expect workers to pay for business travel and hotel costs do you? All costed-in as part of the trip cost, I would think. 
And they've given up a weeks holiday to go on the trip. They could have stayed at home and put their feet up but instead chose to work. Regardless of what you think, they were looking after kids and effectively on call 24/7.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Surely the whole point of school trips is to get smashed away from your parents!
@valais2, Pass me my violin!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Love all the reviews, even before this it didn't get a good press.
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