SecondCor521
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Hi all,
My daughter goes to a local private high school and is pretty involved in their music program. The music teacher is promoting a spring break trip where the kids go to Disneyworld and do some cool music stuff. I suspect a lot of the other kids in the program will go.
The price of the program is about $2K for five days, with the first and last of those days basically being travel days. This seems steep to me and my ex.
We've nearly decided we'll ask my daughter to contribute $400 and my ex and I will split the $1600 50/50. At least that's the proposal my ex and I have very briefly discussed.
So from that point of view, we've addressed it for our family, and I'm mostly OK with our solution.
My daughter has mentioned that several of the other kids also want to go but think it's expensive.
Do I bring these concerns up with the teacher, or let sleeping dogs lie? My daughter has just started at this school as a sophomore, so we've got three years ahead of us here, and I don't want to be a rabblerouser or troublemaker and create bad blood at the beginning of everything. But I also don't want the teacher and the school naively assuming that everyone is peachy paying higher than market rates for a trip like this.
Because the trip is being provided by some trip-planning company and it is overpriced, I am also wondering if the teacher gets a free trip by virtue of getting the group together. This also rubs me the wrong way a little bit if this is the case.
My daughter goes to a local private high school and is pretty involved in their music program. The music teacher is promoting a spring break trip where the kids go to Disneyworld and do some cool music stuff. I suspect a lot of the other kids in the program will go.
The price of the program is about $2K for five days, with the first and last of those days basically being travel days. This seems steep to me and my ex.
We've nearly decided we'll ask my daughter to contribute $400 and my ex and I will split the $1600 50/50. At least that's the proposal my ex and I have very briefly discussed.
So from that point of view, we've addressed it for our family, and I'm mostly OK with our solution.
My daughter has mentioned that several of the other kids also want to go but think it's expensive.
Do I bring these concerns up with the teacher, or let sleeping dogs lie? My daughter has just started at this school as a sophomore, so we've got three years ahead of us here, and I don't want to be a rabblerouser or troublemaker and create bad blood at the beginning of everything. But I also don't want the teacher and the school naively assuming that everyone is peachy paying higher than market rates for a trip like this.
Because the trip is being provided by some trip-planning company and it is overpriced, I am also wondering if the teacher gets a free trip by virtue of getting the group together. This also rubs me the wrong way a little bit if this is the case.