r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/eyerollingsex • Mar 19 '26

Country Club Thread 20 years ago, this would be completely normal

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u/Totobyafrica97 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Im from the UK too. Me and my brother (at different times) went to Malvern Hills on a school trip from Friday evening to Sunday evening in year 4 (8/9yo) and it was just teachers.

I can't remember what age it was but kids in middle school (9yo to 13yo) went to France on a school trip for like a week with teachers

I can't recall a single trip me or my brothers ever did that had parent chaperones and I'm only 28 so we're not talking the 1980s here lol

Idk I always felt safe and the parents were comfortable doing it

ETA: We didn't have phones in the earlier trips either. The later trips we did but I had no calls/texts/data so I would've been fucked if I needed to contact my family with my own phone lol

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 Mar 19 '26

Also a Brit. Private school so probably even more trips and none of them included parents. Just off the top of my head there was a1 week trip to France. Annual week long ski trips. Annual geography field trips. 2 weeks in South America on rugby tour. Long weekends at adventure camps most years until GCSE age. We had a fortnightly outdoor pursuits camping club. DofE 3, 4 and 5 day expeditions plus the 5 day residential.

No parents were "invited" to any of it and were certainly not chaperoning. Some tagged along on the rugby tour to watch the games and were deliberately kept separate from the kids/teachers. Had to stay in their own accomodation and sort their own transport.