My kids never had a foreign vacation, as all of my friends’ children never had one. We couldn’t afford one. Their class trip was to Chicago.
At least it wasn't to East St. Louis.
Back in the seventies I went to a private school in NYC. Our spring break vacation was to a farm in upstate NY. We had to WORK! We had to do farm stuff!
Foreign class trips were unheard of back then (I think)