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Washington D.C.

by Philip Read

Oct 18, 2009

I hworked with New Century from their inception in 1990 until mey retirement in 1998. There was never a problem that was not immediately taken care of. On one trip we had a student cut his head at the capitol builoding. New Century provided an ambulance and had us takedn to the hospital where he had staples used to close it up. On numerous occasions we have hd sick students and these were provided transportation to the hotel with one of the chaperones. If you choose good chaperones then you will not have many problems thatg can not be taken care of. My wife and I worked with the owners of tghe companyfor about 27 years, leaving another company when they started up and were never disappointed. You could not find more caring people than those who founded the company. I find it difficult to hear of these incidents and find much validity to them. The only reason my former school system left is because the school committee disallowed them.

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socaliforniamagistra Why was New Century disallowed by your committee? That was a very provocative statement.

While I am now happily traveling with LEAD Discovery USA out of San Diego, my district has a number of student tour companies that are acceptable to them. These companies may not offer the stipends etc. to teachers or administrators (neither can we sol...See MoreWhy was New Century disallowed by your committee? That was a very provocative statement.

While I am now happily traveling with LEAD Discovery USA out of San Diego, my district has a number of student tour companies that are acceptable to them. These companies may not offer the stipends etc. to teachers or administrators (neither can we solicit or accept these perks beyond a free trip and reimbursement of expenses given directly through our school board.) and I think the respective companies have to add us to their liability insurance. For a district to 'disallow' a company rather than to have simply chosen one company over another, is interesting.

I traveled with New Century once, and while they were nice people, they did not provide the 24-hour teaching tour guide or had as much educational content or activities as I wanted, We had a lot of fast food (I have since banned food vouchers at food courts from all my trips!). They seemed to follow the same itineraries and overall style as Worldstrides, although the hotels were better and closer to DC. (I wondered if the two companies were ever related.)

On 10/18/09, Philip Read wrote: > I hworked with New Century from their inception in 1990 > until mey retirement in 1998. There was never a problem > that was not immediately taken care of. On one trip we had > a student cut his head at the capitol builoding. New > Century provided an ambulance and had us takedn to the > hospital where he had staples used to close it up. On > numerous occasions we have hd sick students and these were > provided transportation to the hotel with one of the > chaperones. If you choose good chaperones then you will > not have many problems thatg can not be taken care of. My > wife and I worked with the owners of tghe companyfor about > 27 years, leaving another company when they started up and > were never disappointed. You could not find more caring > people than those who founded the company. I find it > difficult to hear of these incidents and find much validity > to them. The only reason my former school system left is > because the school committee disallowed them.

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