High cost of a free trip

Of course teachers go free on school trips abroad (Letters). they’re hardly going to pay for taking on the responsibility of our offspring.

that said, there is no reason for costly school trips. while they may educate in the broader sense, if they were essential to academic achievement then those who didn’t go would suffer poorer exam results.

neither of my sons went on school trips, but they went on to higher education. It’s time schools gave equal opportunity to all pupils, not just those with better-off parents. KAREN cartwright,

Redditch, worcs. Why should teachers be expected to pay for the privilege of having 24hour responsibility for pupils on school trips? JUNE HARPER, Stourbridge, w. Mids. WHO would pay £2,000 for a school trip to south Africa (Mail)? when my daughter returned from a school trip to Moscow, I asked what she had learned about the country. there was a long pause and then she said: ‘the ice cream is different.’ WILLIAM WADE, Braintree, Essex.