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Yeah, kind of my point was that y'all are viewing it as a "field trip", which is typically a specific event that's infrequent, carefully organized and supervised, which is a whole different beast to the generic standing instructions of "we're not going to supervise your kids if they wander off school grounds" slip.
For the former case it's pretty much understood that everyone in class should be able to join a field trip, but for the latter it's not unusual for parents to decline and therefore teachers would absolutely be expected to enforce the rules.
The latter paragraph is a pretty common argument about realism in fantasy, but when authors ask you to suspend your disbelief about what's possible in the setting, that doesn't mean you have to suspend your disbelief about every plot point.
Yep, even fiction is expected to have its own internal consistency within its proposed reality, known to Tolkien as "secondary belief."
People who read fiction don't like it when authors break their own rules.