Hello,

that was quite an interesting read, which I appreciated also for the fact that you spoke from life episodes.

I want to share my thoughts on it and I guess it may provoke in one way or the other.

The ridiculousness is hard to beat in what paper tigers and disclaimers are put on.

It would be interesting to ask if you knew any of the teachers or adults travelling with the class. Know in the sense of trust. To the extent that you would have had the impression that these people were trustworthy and would have been able to look after your daughter properly?

What do you think, if the reverse were true, that you would have received written assurance that in the event of your daughter's injury or death, they would all have signed that they would be liable in such an event, would you have been calm and confident? Would you have said to yourself, "Oh, how reassuring. So they deem themselves liable, they will take good care of my daughter." Does that eliminate the unlikely event? Accidents or carelessness address the unlikely or the exceptional, no?

From how I see it, the school is not an individual, it is not an entity, it is basically not liable for anything because the school is not the teachers. Only the individual is basically to be questioned and held responsible. In the same way, if your daughter had been injured or even died, you would not have been able to turn to "the school" (there is no such thing) but would have wanted to contact living people who could tell you what happened. If this had been the case and you had then taken the step of seeking this responsibility, i.e. answers as to how such a situation could have arisen, from those who had actually been there, then you could have sued the teachers as individuals. Since the teachers are not "the school".

No one can stop you from going to court if you feel that the court is needed. "The school" cannot take the children on a field trip, only the people can do that. As long as you don't have the names of the teachers on that piece of paper, you can trick the thing, because it is impossible for "the school" to be "the teachers" at the same time.

One could assume that the parents who let their children travel somehow "knew" that the school could not be held liable anyway and that in the event it is the individual who feels either responsible or not responsible.

Regardless of whether one signs a paper tiger, the question that is lingering (consciously or unconsciously) is: Can I trust the people involved? This question cannot be answered absolutely because there are no guarantees of harm or death not occurring.

Having said this, I still find that there is this strange field of "no one wants to be responsible for anything", a phenomena of our times. I think it has to to with isolation and a bondless society. As no one wants to be responsible for anything, the paradox happens that everyone wants everyone else to be responsible. If you know what I mean?

Have a good day :)