Did your FCPS go on a really pitiful field trip this year to the Smithsonian art museum?

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What’s a good field trip alternative?

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The Jamestown wine was great.

Local - maybe a performance at George Mason. The issue is using school buses. Unless they stay in Fairfax county that tends to mean they have no time to do anything due to the short window to get the bus back. So renting buses would be the better way to do the art museum field trip

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My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

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Anonymous wrote:My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

Our school did jamestown and the richmond science museum. No kennedy center or nature center

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Anonymous wrote:My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

Our school did jamestown and the richmond science museum. No kennedy center or nature center

Every 4th grader goes to the Kennedy Center and every 6th grader goes to an art museum.

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Anonymous wrote:My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

Our school did jamestown and the richmond science museum. No kennedy center or nature center

Every 4th grader goes to the Kennedy Center and every 6th grader goes to an art museum.

Not every fourth grade does Kennedy Center. Our fourth grade does Jamestown every year and rotates other field trips

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Anonymous wrote:My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

Our school did jamestown and the richmond science museum. No kennedy center or nature center

Every 4th grader goes to the Kennedy Center and every 6th grader goes to an art museum.

Not every fourth grade does Kennedy Center. Our fourth grade does Jamestown every year and rotates other field trips

Every ES school in FCPS is invited to send their fourth graders to the Kennedy Center to see the NSO.

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Anonymous wrote:My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

Our school did jamestown and the richmond science museum. No kennedy center or nature center

Every 4th grader goes to the Kennedy Center and every 6th grader goes to an art museum.

Not every fourth grade does Kennedy Center. Our fourth grade does Jamestown every year and rotates other field trips

Every ES school in FCPS is invited to send their fourth graders to the Kennedy Center to see the NSO.

Not every ES accepts the invitation

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Anonymous wrote:My now fifth grader went on three field trips last year. The Kennedy Center (I think all 4th grades go), Jamestown and a nature center where they collected and investigated species living in the pond. I thought they were great trips!

Our school did jamestown and the richmond science museum. No kennedy center or nature center

Every 4th grader goes to the Kennedy Center and every 6th grader goes to an art museum.

Not every fourth grade does Kennedy Center. Our fourth grade does Jamestown every year and rotates other field trips

Every ES school in FCPS is invited to send their fourth graders to the Kennedy Center to see the NSO.

Not every ES accepts the invitation

Correct.

[Anonymous]

I would love to do field trips with my students, but I wouldn’t want to take on the potential liability.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to do field trips with my students, but I wouldn’t want to take on the potential liability.

Are you serious?

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At my school, they sent kids on a field trip to chuckecheese.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to do field trips with my students, but I wouldn’t want to take on the potential liability.

Are you serious?

Absolutely.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to do field trips with my students, but I wouldn’t want to take on the potential liability.

If you're for real, then you are a TERRIBLE teacher. What other experiences are you not allowing your poor students to have? Do you also ban books?

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Anonymous wrote:I remember a field trip (I was a chaperone). We got to the museum and barely had any time there. Another mom was letting her group of children run around. Then we ate lunch on the steps outside and got back on the bus. When we were within three miles of the school, the bus driver insisted on following some directions she had instead of listening to the teacher, and we went about five miles out of the way to get back to the school.

We live at the far reach of FCPS. Going into DC is just a big risk with traffic, etc. Not worth it unless transportation can be adjusted.

driving anywhere is a risk. Gimme a break. DC’s museums, zoo, botanical garden, capital, bureau of engraving, etc. are a field trip dream for most American students. Be thankful.

Yes. However, parents can take the kids there and spend the day. I would say, though, that Title I schools should go on MORE field trips.

There are plenty of places in Fairfax County that are close by that are appropriate for field trips.

where should they go in Fairfax County?

Multiple places might be good. Random examples include Mt Vernon (works as a teachable moment about good and bad history), Colvin Run mill, nature centers, etc.