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

[Anonymous]

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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?

I’m not the PP, but often times there is a student or two that could make a field trip very difficult.

[Anonymous]

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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?

I teach HS. Only a few of my colleagues try to take students on field trips. Do you know what teenagers are like?

[Anonymous]

no, they went to richmond science center and mill

[Anonymous]

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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?

Of course I don’t ban books. Also, I’m not their mom, so stop trying to mom-shame me. I am a professional who has more education than you (unless you have 2 PhDs).

[Anonymous]

Hah just found out my kid going to the trip next month

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had the same experience. My husband took my kids again on the next day off so they could have a much better experience. FWIW my son said the kids were not well behaved so maybe starting small was a good idea. These were 6th graders who hadn’t been on a trip since 3rd grade.

Starting small? This is the only field trip they will take all year.

Do other schools' 6th graders get another field trip?

Good on the dad for making it up to the kids.

Hope others do the same and even plan trips with other families.

You really can’t rely on FCPS for some things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

I teach HS. Only a few of my colleagues try to take students on field trips. Do you know what teenagers are like?

I'm also a high school teacher and I take kids on multiple field trips per year. What are you worried about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

our 4th grade did not go to Kennedy Center. Nor did our 6th grade go to an art museum. This is not true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

Of course I don’t ban books. Also, I’m not their mom, so stop trying to mom-shame me. I am a professional who has more education than you (unless you have 2 PhDs).

DP and fellow PhD holder who is not impressed. Having advanced degrees doesn’t automatically make you a good teacher. Sometimes you’re the worst because you assume your education is sufficient to do the job well. Sounds like you need to learn some management techniques so your students can get the experiences they deserve. Saying you won’t bother because one or two students make it difficult is a total cop out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

our 4th grade did not go to Kennedy Center. Nor did our 6th grade go to an art museum. This is not true.

But the schools are invited to these trips and they can choose to go (often at just $5).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

our 4th grade did not go to Kennedy Center. Nor did our 6th grade go to an art museum. This is not true.

It is true. Every school is offered the fourth grade trip to the Kennedy Center. I can’t speak for the art museum trip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

our 4th grade did not go to Kennedy Center. Nor did our 6th grade go to an art museum. This is not true.

It is true. Every school is offered the fourth grade trip to the Kennedy Center. I can’t speak for the art museum trip.

Every 6th grader is too. Each school gets an assigned museum and date. It is up to the teachers to confirm and decide if they are going.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe at your school. Not at ours. The kids last year went to George Mason's house instead of Jamestown and then they went to a one-room schoolhouse in Alexandria. They were pretty upset when the heard that kids in neighboring elementary schools with to Jamestown or Richmond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Ok, so your school turned down the Kennedy field trip. That’s on the 4th grade team (teachers), FCPS invites them.


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

Maybe at your school. Not at ours. The kids last year went to George Mason's house instead of Jamestown and then they went to a one-room schoolhouse in Alexandria. They were pretty upset when the heard that kids in neighboring elementary schools with to Jamestown or Richmond.

[Anonymous]

What happened to the big trips that FCPS used to do, Philly, Williamsburg, etc.

Mine is a 6th grader scheduled to do the trip to National Gallery. Sounds like it’s not going to be a great experience.