Principal banned after pupils had sex on ski trip

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1. When I was at school, that’s why you went on ski trips.

2. Basically this was a jolly for the staff under the guise of being for the kids so zero due diligence was done on this.

3. But let’s remember folks; kids are safer in school than in home education. Teachers watch them and keep them safe /s

4. >Of the 12 pupils attending the trip, “10 had special educational needs, eight were known to be sexually active, seven were known to have substance misuse problems and three had current justice system involvement”.

   If I was a teacher I’d immediately nope the fuck out of that. No free ski trip is worth being the responsible adult.

5. When I was 15 I went on the school ski trip, it was all girls from an all girls school. Our ski instructors were a bunch of 18 yr old guys all staying in the same hotel. To be fair from what I remember all the lads were very sweet and innocent but I’m sure my parents had no idea that was the set up!! We did a dance performance for them on the last night!! Which the teachers seemed fine with!!

   Man the ‘90’s were weird!!

6. It’s the teachers fault for a girl offering herself out for £30. Right

7. Unless the teachers were on guard duty 100% of the time in the separated rooms as stated in the article. You can’t expect horny teenagers not to do horny teenager things. Not to mention the fact they all had known behavioural issues, good luck keeping them in check. Their parents and the teens themselves are part to blame here.

8. It sounds like one of the girls was raped ??? I’m not sure why that isn’t a bigger concern

9. Is it wrong I’m more shocked at the assumption the kids were all assumed to be “straight” and therefore separating them is considered safe guarding. Maybe skins, sex education and the new heartbreak high is biasing my reaction. 

10. Went on a ski trip in school. The girls had 3rd floor of the hotel and the boys the 2nd.

    Teachers would sit in the hotel bar and get absolutely battered. Boys would sneak upstairs.

    Illicit alcohol and sex related shenanigans would happen.

    Drunken teacher would wander up, pretend not to see anything and wander back down.

    Hungover teachers would try to rouse everyone to keep up the pretence of skiing the next day

11. Everything about this is weird, the timeframe, the knowledge of which kids were sexually active, the assumption they were all fucking all the time 🤷‍♀️

12. Lots of people here seem to have been on a school ski trip in the past.

    My school went to a ski slope in the posh bit of the city. But amazingly the big foreign trip was Amsterdam.

13. >”The pupils were left unsupervised within their bedrooms, leaving them vulnerable to engaging in sexual activity,” the hearing said.

    Gotta be honest, what was the teacher supposed to do?

    Be in 12 different rooms, watching 12 different teenagers change, all at the same time?

14. With how scared boomers are of teenagers having sex, I’m surprised that after news like that I can look outside my window and see that the world didn’t end

15. Whoever was in charge wanted a free ski trip and didn’t seem to think a school filled with problem children and adults , since some students are 18 , would cause problems .

    Bit like going on a safari with meat cologne.

16. Scapegoated massively, needed someone to blame, hope she sues

17. That’s pretty soft. Our catholic high school went on a school trip to Lourdes when we were 14. On the bus there, near the back of the bus, there was someone fingering a girl under his school blazer.

18. Wait. The Principal was the only one on this trip who didn’t have sex, do drugs or commit a crime? What a degenerate!

19. I feel bad for the teacher here. Sounds like a bunch of unruly children with numerous problems and shit parenting, and a lack of discipline, and they ran out of control once let loose, even with the supervision given. (Breaking down doors, stealing knives). Like some of this shit, teachers should not and cannot put up with. This is the sort of shit the police should be intervening and arresting people.

    I think other teachers will look at this article and think twice about trying to offer these sort of trips to their students, if they have even the slightest lack of faith in those students discipline (This will definitely be to the detriment of similar children with development problems).

    I completely understand it was the Principals responsibility, and the fact it was covered up, but cant help but feel sympathy.

    I’m honestly surprised the hotel didn’t intervene when it caught wind of the theft, and damage.

    Like how does a 13 year old just go up and steal alcohol?

20. teenagers be boning sometimes. as long as there was no assault, no STIs, and the teachers couldn’t have realistically separated it, no harm done imo.

21. Hopefully it wasn’t on the slopes in broad daylight resulting in a messy diplomat incident

22. Teenagers are going to find a way to have sex. I only concern is the special needs angle that’s a different kind of responsibility for those people. I remember in the late ’80s we had a music sleepover at the school and I had a girlfriend at the time. And it’s impossible to police that many kids and their devious natures. We ended up sneaking off into a practice room in the music room. It’s privacy. But the special needs thing that’s a whole different type of responsibility.

23. Just a thought, maybe sending kids who are at a school for troubled kids on a ski trip isnt the best idea unless you have pretty much the same number of teachers.

24. Wait… what are you supposed to be doing on highschool ski trips? I guess a lot has changed since the 90s.

25. [https://imgur.com/a/a9KzGJT](https://imgur.com/a/a9KzGJT)

26. Amazing, these teens stole things but the headline is “had sex”?

    Why lead with something that’s legal? To rile up the non sex havers?

    Ah knives. Those were the days. I remember a school trip to France where French would just sell knives to any English schoolboy that wanted one. Every boy on the coach was packing knives and air pistols on the bus back. 

    A French copper got on the bus at the border and just told everyone to drop the weapons in a bin bag and no one would get in trouble. 

    That was a very heavy bag by the end.

27. They think this is bad they should’ve heard what the kids I went to college with got up to on our annual camping trip. Would’ve made this trip look like a family trip to butlins.

28. You guys went skiing? I went to a poor people school 🙁

29. Bit different given it’s a principal, but this is the worst part of being a teacher.

    I teach overseas and absolutely everything is your fault. We had a teacher accidentally lock a student in a classroom at 1pm in the afternoon. (We had a weird policy about locking doors and the student was hiding) Within 10 minutes that child thought the best course of action would be to jump from the first floor window, fall an entire storey and luckily fell in a bush.

    Obviously entirely the teachers fault… Because jumping out of a window is definitely the first course of action in that situation. Oh and there were people in the corridor who could have let him out…

30. Ffs – the kids were already doing this at home. At least let them go on a school trip and don’t blame staff for their crap.

    Depressing that they would have been deemed “unsuitable” for the trip had “individual assessments been made” – if they’ve got issues, making sure these issues only happen where they live isn’t solving anything.

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