#schoolcamp — Public Fediverse posts

This is sad. Papatoetoe Intermediate School has cancelled its school camp this year because so few families could afford it.

Last year camp cost $240/ This year, it's over $350. Only 160 out of 750 students confirmed they could go.

School camps are a right of passage for kiwi kids. I curse the coalition government which has made so many families so very poor.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/771967/auckland-school-forced-to-cancel-school-camp-as-families-unable-to-afford-it

#NZ #Education #SchoolCamp

Anyone have experience with fundraising for a Year 6 School Camp? Or similar event?
The current committee are favouring a raffle and a quiz night. Which are solid options but I'm thinking I'd like to suggest something at least, idk, a bit less "safe".
Even my first few thoughts seem a bit daring for this lot:

Wine tasting evening
Lawn bowls
BBQ cook off

I think I may have blown their minds suggesting the raffle could be done all modern on the Facebook.
Thoughts?
#Fundraising #SchoolCamp #Suggestions

Fellow #Australians were you ever sent off to a #school camp and then sprayed with #firefightering foam by the very friendly #firemen?

Welcome to the sordid world of non-consensual #medicalExperimentation.

And yes, we do remember it.

And no, our parents were not #informed about it.

#camp #schoolCamp #nonConsensual #consent #medicalTesting #nurembergViolation #childAbuse #forcedExperimentation #PFAS #bioAccumulative #foreverChemicals #3M #DuPont #fireFightingFoam