"... the school would not be held responsible if anything happens to my child..."
I'll admit that I've never joined a class field trip during my elementary and high school years. Why? Let's just say I'm afraid of leaving my comfort zone and that I have a wild imagination that the bus would explode, hijacked or falling of a cliff. Pretty intense huh? Well my guardian would give me money and sign the permission slip that they are allowing me to join the activity or event but, I would simply wait for the last day of payment so that I would return the money to my guardian saying that I didn't make it on time to pay for the trip and then I'll throw the slip away. I am not a kill joy, I am just afraid. My eldest sister would urge me to join the girl scouts so that I can experience camping outdoors, again, I refused to go.
When did it all start? That I simply don't know. I am also afraid of heights but maybe I freaked out when I read the waiver saying "...the school would not be held responsible if anything happens to my child...", I mean, HELLO!!! The trip was the school's idea right? If it was their idea then there should be a chaperone or a faculty member accompanying the students the whole time, right? There should always be an adult or a chaperone in case anything happens but let's not forget the fact that the child- the student could be at fault but that is why there is a great need of a chaperone to put the situation under control. I would like to ask, if you were a parent, would you sign the waiver- the consent form that you are allowing your child to join an activity if you new that your child could die?
An interesting sad story that just happened recently in Bulacan as to what really happened that caused 6 students to die in the flash flood. Some claimed that they took a group picture even though the water in the river were rising fast and by the time they finished it was already too late; but when their schoolmate said that it was not true, questions began to rise and he showed the media a picture that he took showing his schoolmates being stranded in the middle of the river, standing only on a big rock clutching one another hoping to survive. They never did. The parents mourned their children. Their schoolmates mourned their friends.
Isn't it devastating to know that you allowed your child to go and have fun but it turned out to be their last day on earth? Or to know that your child suffered to catch their last breathe? And to know and feel that the school denies all the responsibility for what had just happened to its students?
Yes the parents have signed the waiver that states that they can't be held responsible but the school was the one who thought of having the trip, right? They were also the ones who failed to accompany the students trip up that place.
Signing a waiver allows your child to go somewhere without your supervision can be tricky for you cannot foretell what will happen.
Who must be held responsible- the parents and guardians who have signed the waiver relieving the school from any responsibilities in case anything happens to your child or the school that should have supervised their students?
So my real question is: Do waivers come as a death contract for us students?
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