What teacher will not wince with sympathy this morning for their counterparts caught in the World Cup tickets scam?
As disappointed and at times tearful children found themselves locked out of Friday's Portugal v Iran match because the tickets turned out to be fake, it will have been the teachers who have borne the brunt of the pupils' distress - and have to do the explaining to angry parents today.
School trips make news when they go wrong - and especially in cases when children are killed or injured. But these are news precisely because they are so rare.
However' so intense is the scrutiny on teachers and heads and worries about being sued that schools have become more reluctant to mount them - one teachers' union even advised its members not to take part in trips.
The way schools and local authorities have coped with the risks - with ever more elaborate bureaucratic risk assessments - has also put teachers off.
But still teachers put themselves through that nerve-racking "I counted them out and I counted them in" routine as they criss-cross the country or venture abroad.
And thank goodness they do.
School trips can be hugely beneficial for children - they gain self-confidence and they remember things they wouldn't in the classroom. Especially, being children, they remember the things that go wrong.
Which is why the youngsters who missed that World Cup match may be upset and disappointed but it's not the end of the world. And It was in fact a very educational trip. I bet none of them ever buys a ticket from a tout in their lives.
