Spinoff-if your kid is going to jamestown this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$5 for the matching shirts

Who paid for the buses?

The school paid for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$5 for the matching shirts

Who paid for the buses?

The school paid for it.

The county would only pay for regular school buses. Going to Jamestown usually requires charter buses. Who paid for those?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such a long, long day, especially for some kids with IEPs.

Yes and I was super nervous about it. but kid did well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is $64 and the firm asked if we would like to pay double to sponsor another child. L M A O

Why is that hilarious? Yes, $64 is a decent chunk of change, but I don't understand why you think it incredibly funny for someone to want to help a kid whose parent won't pay for whatever reason?

I feel like a lot of kids on FARMs have families that can actually afford to pay for many things, they just are trying to get as much for free as they can. No one verifies eligibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$5 for the matching shirts

Who paid for the buses?

The school paid for it.

The county would only pay for regular school buses. Going to Jamestown usually requires charter buses. Who paid for those?

+1?

[Anonymous]

$60 for each kid and chaperone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$5 for the matching shirts

Who paid for the buses?

The school paid for it.

The county would only pay for regular school buses. Going to Jamestown usually requires charter buses. Who paid for those?

+1?

PTA helps pay for field trips at our school. The most expensive that I can remember was $30 for Richmond

[Anonymous]

Our ES didn't go there with the 4th graders this year. They went to Gunston Hall instead in the fall. They 4th graders are, shall we say, not happy about missing the trip to Jamestown when other schools around us went there. Ah well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is $64 and the firm asked if we would like to pay double to sponsor another child. L M A O

Why is that hilarious? Yes, $64 is a decent chunk of change, but I don't understand why you think it incredibly funny for someone to want to help a kid whose parent won't pay for whatever reason?

I feel like a lot of kids on FARMs have families that can actually afford to pay for many things, they just are trying to get as much for free as they can. No one verifies eligibility.

Some may be, and some may not. I don't like the idea though of making the kids bear the brunt of poor parenting decisions, they do enough of that. I do have a limit; I will match the price of the trip up to 20 bucks, that's how much I donated when my own DC went to Jamestown. I can't remember the exact price, but it was over $50, and no one got left behind.

[Anonymous]

I’m annoyed, our 4th grade has nothing planned. All we have gotten so far is that awful symphony field trip in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our ES didn't go there with the 4th graders this year. They went to Gunston Hall instead in the fall. They 4th graders are, shall we say, not happy about missing the trip to Jamestown when other schools around us went there. Ah well.

Not going to Jamestown is SO lame! Its seems very inequitable for FCPS to allow some schools to avoid field trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed, our 4th grade has nothing planned. All we have gotten so far is that awful symphony field trip in the fall.

Have you aired your child’s teacher? It’s not too late for them to plan a trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed, our 4th grade has nothing planned. All we have gotten so far is that awful symphony field trip in the fall.

Have you aired your child’s teacher? It’s not too late for them to plan a trip.

It may be too late for Jamestown, they are almost always booked for the year by Oct.

[Anonymous]

We're going in May. $59

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed, our 4th grade has nothing planned. All we have gotten so far is that awful symphony field trip in the fall.

Have you aired your child’s teacher? It’s not too late for them to plan a trip.

It is. It requires a ton of advance planning to coordinate a grade level field trip like that.