OT: when this area makes the news it's always something bad
suzyb
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8596056.stm
Being someone who made the annual pilgrimage to Alton Towers (different school though) I know how excited those kids would have been about the trip. So horrid it ended this way.
Being someone who made the annual pilgrimage to Alton Towers (different school though) I know how excited those kids would have been about the trip. So horrid it ended this way.
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Is that a regular thing from up there then? I thought it sounded a long way to go personally.
Terrible news though.0 -
Just saw this on the news. Awful.FCN 2-4.
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Commiserations to the parents and friends of the girl who was killed :-(Misguided Idealist0
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CiB wrote:Is that a regular thing from up there then? I thought it sounded a long way to go personally.
Terrible news though.
In the school I went to the trip was a tradition. The yearly trip down to Alton towers on the Friday of the September weekend. The only trip open to all years that ends up with 8 buses full of pupils.0 -
suzyb wrote:CiB wrote:Is that a regular thing from up there then? I thought it sounded a long way to go personally.
Terrible news though.
In the school I went to the trip was a tradition. The yearly trip down to Alton towers on the Friday of the September weekend. The only trip open to all years that ends up with 8 buses full of pupils.
Same world different planet almost. We grew up about an hour away from AT & my grandparents used to take us there occasionally, when the main attractions were the huge gardens. The fun park - such that it was then - was a bit of a side show on a par with something like Wiksteed Park, which was the annual trip that we did look forward to going on. Having to go to Sunday School did have some benefits.0 -
I'm with CiB on this one. I remember AT when it was just some gardens and some wildlife dotted about - I even remember the seals in the outdoor pool.
Mind you, until I moved last time I was about 20 mins from the place and there is a girl in the office here who lives in Alton.
We used to (ahem) pop over on Wednesday from school and sneak in (back in the days when you paid by the car load)
How terrible is it though? I remember how excited we would be even if it was a sneaky through the hedges run... tragic endChunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Just dreadful.
It does make me wonder, though, what with the severe weather warnings and all that, why they didn't just postpone the trip.0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Just dreadful.
It does make me wonder, though, what with the severe weather warnings and all that, why they didn't just postpone the trip.
But imo it isn't up to the council or teachers to decide, it's up to the driver of the coach. If he felt it wasn't safe he should have said so.0 -
suzyb wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Just dreadful.
It does make me wonder, though, what with the severe weather warnings and all that, why they didn't just postpone the trip.
But imo it isn't up to the council or teachers to decide, it's up to the driver of the coach. If he felt it wasn't safe he should have said so.
Hmmmm, I agree that it's not for the council to decide, but I would have expected the teachers/people who organized the trip to make the decision to call it off or postpone it.
I agree that the driver should have said if he felt a certain section of road wasn't safe rather than ploughing on regardless, but they perhaps shouldn't have left in the first place - the way I understand it works is that the teachers are responsible for the pupils' safety so the onus is on them, but NB I went to a boarding school so it may work differently.0 -
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It's terrible..... Such a tragic accident. I think everyone has an element of responsibility - parents, teachers and drivers. The parents would probably trust that the teachers and driver knew best, there may have been some chat and they decided to go, then conditions got worse. Very sad."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0
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suzyb wrote:Or as someone on another forum said it could just have been a freak accident in which no one is to blame.
Someone, unfortunately, is almost always to blame. Especially in the compensation culture we all participate in.0