Patrol Picnic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

This is a current generation problem I am seeing. Kids want to be constantly entertained by someone or something else these days. They can't figure out what to do on their own. They need "organized" activities. This is a picnic, not an amusement park. My DC will be going. If DC gets bored, oh well. A bit of boredom won't kill DC. Have lunch, hang out with some other kids, and not be in cooped up in class all day. Pretty "fun" day for a 5th grader IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

That is why your TEACH your kids about predators when they are young, you idiot. Not follow your 12yr old around like a nut job. If your 5th grader is dumb enough to fall for the "I have candy in my car, leave your friends and come with me" than that is absolutely all your fault as a parent.

Abductions by strangers is only 1% of all abductions.

Most predators pick up college students, not 5th graders. So.... I guess University of Maryland Online College is where your kids are "going."

There are more sexual assaults IN Montgomery County schools by employees than there would be by some random stranger who knew to head into the fairground for a Patrol Picnic

This is the safest time to live in America for children

You are fear freak. Always finding the one national news story and thinking it happens everywhere. Why is it a national news story again? Because it rarely happens. But are all the sexual assaults in MCPS national news stories? No. But yet, you are still sending your kid to school every day without you? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

Well thank goodness you're just an awful person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will probably opt out. Don't need DD in a big zoo like atmosphere for an afternoon when she could be in class.

Bad parent alert.

Is it a

H E L I C O P T E R

or a

T I G E R

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

How does this predator know to head out to the Montgomery County Fair grounds for the morning? LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

There is a chance child could be hit by a car crossing the road, even with you. It happened to my DC and I. We still cross the road, and I bet so do you. There is a chance your child will be shot in school by a mass shooter, yet, I bet you still send your kid to school. There is even a chance your child could be molested by an adult in your child's school, yet I'm betting you still send your child to school.

Child abductions are indeed very rare. Your child probably will be hanging out with other kids. Teach kids about "stranger danger" and use the buddy system.

How on earth do some people live their lives with this much anxiety and worry, and I say this as a worry wart, but if having kids has taught me anything it's that you just got learn to not worry about every single little thing that could possibly go wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

How does this predator know to head out to the Montgomery County Fair grounds for the morning? LOL

Well, it is the perfect get-away thru the acres of wide open fields. Not a chance any of the hundreds of kids or far too few chaperones would see. I bet the police that stay on patrol right there don't see it either. I am keeping my kid home and making them do Kumon all day. They will be so much safer.

[Anonymous]

Talked to DS about this today. We agreed that he won't go, and will enjoy the day at school. I did not like the unsupervised schedule, and was worried that he may get scared on a ride, be exposed to strange noises or need a snack on the bus trip home without me there. Better safe than sorry for my DS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

If I were a predator, a lightly chaperoned, informal picnic of a thousand ten year olds would seem like the place I'd want to be!

That is why your TEACH your kids about predators when they are young, you idiot. Not follow your 12yr old around like a nut job. If your 5th grader is dumb enough to fall for the "I have candy in my car, leave your friends and come with me" than that is absolutely all your fault as a parent.

Abductions by strangers is only 1% of all abductions.

Most predators pick up college students, not 5th graders. So.... I guess University of Maryland Online College is where your kids are "going."

There are more sexual assaults IN Montgomery County schools by employees than there would be by some random stranger who knew to head into the fairground for a Patrol Picnic

This is the safest time to live in America for children

You are fear freak. Always finding the one national news story and thinking it happens everywhere. Why is it a national news story again? Because it rarely happens. But are all the sexual assaults in MCPS national news stories? No. But yet, you are still sending your kid to school every day without you? Why?

THIS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Talked to DS about this today. We agreed that he won't go, and will enjoy the day at school. I did not like the unsupervised schedule, and was worried that he may get scared on a ride, be exposed to strange noises or need a snack on the bus trip home without me there. Better safe than sorry for my DS!

Poor whittle snowflake!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Talked to DS about this today. We agreed that he won't go, and will enjoy the day at school. I did not like the unsupervised schedule, and was worried that he may get scared on a ride, be exposed to strange noises or need a snack on the bus trip home without me there. Better safe than sorry for my DS!

PP: are you sending DS to public middle school? You might want to consider a more sheltered private. Outdoor Ed is really going to bother you. But these experiences build confidence and independence for your kid. Don’t let your anxieties become their anxieties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had two kids go over the years. They both said it was boring--long lines, not many rides. I wasn't excited about the lack of supervision (my assumption, but I"ve never been in person) but it was fine.

Lack of supervision for a 5th grader?? Mine has been off in the neighborhood since they were 8 and doing whatever kids do. Just like YOU did when you were a kid. Did Mommy and Daddy supervise you all the time in 5th grade? Stop the coddling.

Our class trip was to Dorney Park in PA for 5th grade. No cell phones. We knew of 4 posts in the park to locate a teacher or chaperone if we needed something. Otherwise, we were on our own all day. Best trip ever. Now 5th grade trips can only be to boring historic areas with a chaperone per 5 kids handing out handy wipes and feeding them apple slices. Pretty pathetic how parents have changed.

Yeah MCPS...what is up with the historic field trips? Why the focus on education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Talked to DS about this today. We agreed that he won't go, and will enjoy the day at school. I did not like the unsupervised schedule, and was worried that he may get scared on a ride, be exposed to strange noises or need a snack on the bus trip home without me there. Better safe than sorry for my DS!

PP: are you sending DS to public middle school? You might want to consider a more sheltered private. Outdoor Ed is really going to bother you. But these experiences build confidence and independence for your kid. Don’t let your anxieties become their anxieties.

Did you miss the part where OP said her kid has HFA? As the parent of a much younger child with autism, I can see how he could be a great patrol (very rule focused, detail oriented, etc.) and also be easily overwhelmed by the picnic a lot of PPs are describing. OP isn’t a helicopter parent, she’s trying to help her kid navigate a situation that’s different for him than it is for the other kids.