Do you agree with me or parent and child?

This was posted on the 2nd of July, so how comes everyone is commenting on it again? How did that start?

The joys of the world in 2026. I imagine 'Gerty' is also soon going to be offered the choice of becoming a boy.

eazybee

Gerty has a choice: she takes her medication and goes on the trip, or refuses her medication and does not go, as her action impacts on other people.

If it is a school trip and part of the curriculum, I am not sure where you stand, (depriving child of educational opportunity) but possibly get parent to sign a disclaimer and agree to take responsibility for any damage caused.

This!!!

Oreo

She doesn’t take medication she doesn’t go.

This.

The child should definitely have a choice. Take the tablet and go, or stay at school and miss the trip.

As a retired Primary school teacher you have my sympathy. The mother of that child should be ashamed and should have been made to pay towards the clean up. No tablet, no trip,

Agree with you , of course.
Re the self-centredness of this parent, words fail me.
I agree with all the other posters that there is a choice to be had. Take the tablet or miss the trip.

I've read this exact same post before!!

"Gerty should get a kick up the bum"

easy. No medication no trip. That's then their choice isn't it?! I would send the parent the clean up bill for drying cleaning and the bus...

That would have been enforced the 1st time if it was me in charge. But definitely in future then no pill, no day out unless the mother comes and is there to clean up the vomit and make sure it doesn't land on anyone else.

If someone threw up on a scheduled bus the driver immediately took it out of service and passengers waited for the next one. Same thing happened this July when poor was reported on upper deck. Wondering what the regulations are for hired coaches. During many years of teaching I took whole classes on coached. It was just common sense to take a few metal
waste paper baskets, thick paper bags and plenty of paper towels, wipes etc. I was never the sole adult so an any child likely to be travel sick was seated next to an adult near the front of the coach. I don’t recall any major problems. Usually another pupil would tell an adult: ‘Gerty feels sick , Miss’ and a bin was rapidly put in place.
My own child at 14 was occasionally travel sick, for a day trip to Stratford I asked if they could sit at the front. When I met the coach 12 hours later the teacher said ‘X was not travel sick but I’m surprised they weren’t as salt and vinegar crisps were being dipped in rhubarb yoghurt!’

I would tell the selfish mother that Gerty is no longer able to attend any coach trips until she realises that allowing her daughter to choose whether to take medication or not is not good enough
If I was the parent of those other 2 kids who were vomited on I would be furious