Why is it the job of the school to provide kids with trips in the first place. Why does government try to solve every problem and non-problem there is. The government worker's perception would be: these are poor inner-city kids, they won't get to go on a trip unless we bring them. But that's fine. That's how the world works. Why shelter the kids from the realities-- there are haves and have-nots. If you go out of your way to bring these kids out of their element, and out of the loving supervision of their own family and into the indifferent clinical supervision of a chaperone, sh8t like this goes down. The teachers have grown up in middle-class families in which everyone is accustomed to the outdoors and swimming; with these students, no one they know knows anything about these topics.