I'd be sad to see them decline too, but on the other hand I also really hated it when a kid got killed by one last year when the school decided to visit a flood prone cave during a heavy rain warning.

There has to be a happy medium around high risk vs low risk trips.

There has got to be a mechanism to prevent individual schools from making terrible judgment calls.

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 4 months ago

Agreed, but it is a fine line to walk.

Unfortunately there will be mistakes no matter how much paperwork is and to the process.

[–] Dave 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe there's opportunity for a pre-approved list? Visiting a cave sounds like a high risk activity that feels low risk, so it might be hard for a school to make a good call on. But if there was a list of activities to guide schools, maybe that could help?

It transfers some of the responsibility to the government (who organises the list), and could give schools a concrete list of things they should be doing or considering for different activity types.