Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
For the benefit of the many non-Brits complaining about how unrealistic it is: the Leaving School Grounds Unsupervised form is (when I grew up at least) a huge social divider and Big Deal in a lot of British schools. There was a whole micro industry at mine where the ~70% of kids who were allowed out would provide delivery services for sweets and pop for the 30% who weren’t.
JKR didn’t just pull this whole thing out her ass, it was something that most British kids will have instantly related to. (She’s still an awful human mind)
We had something similar, but it was for a specific reason, like going to a job (we had an OJT class) or attending classes at the local college. It was only available in the last two years of high school too.
There wasn’t a weird industry or anything, kids would just skip if they wanted to, and nobody policed the lunch hour or anything. But it’s kinda similar I guess.
I find it hard to believe that a school that has the students fight world level villains on their own while the teachers do fuck all would be hung up by a permission slip.
Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I mean, in the US we have permission slips from parents to go on field trips. Not sure why people would find it unrealistic.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Yeah, kind of my point was that y’all are viewing it as a “field trip”, which is typically a specific event that’s infrequent, carefully organized and supervised, which is a whole different beast to the generic standing instructions of “we’re not going to supervise your kids if they wander off school grounds” slip.
For the former case it’s pretty much understood that everyone in class should be able to join a field trip, but for the latter it’s not such a foregone conclusion.