Recent field trip to New York City

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

That’s my point, some parents might have a positive attitude towards the field trip, but if you ask directly to several kids they did not enjoy the trip. It’s not only my child. Don’t shoot the messenger 😅.

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

The previous poster is not OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

You are refusing to listen to the truth. Since so little time was spent in NYC it actually is more accurate to call it a field trip to Dave and Busters in NJ. That is what this was.

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You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

You are refusing to listen to the truth. Since so little time was spent in NYC it actually is more accurate to call it a field trip to Dave and Busters in NJ. That is what this was.

I listen to the truth when I hear it. ‘Two days in Jersey at D&B’ becomes harder to defend once the actual itinerary enters the chat.

Unfortunately for you, I learned the trip also included Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Tenement Museum, and a food/history component.

Now my take is to judge the people trying to shift the truth because they poisoned the well for the kids on the trip with their own preconceived miserable opinions because their child would not see a broadway show.

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You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

You are refusing to listen to the truth. Since so little time was spent in NYC it actually is more accurate to call it a field trip to Dave and Busters in NJ. That is what this was.

I listen to the truth when I hear it. ‘Two days in Jersey at D&B’ becomes harder to defend once the actual itinerary enters the chat.

Unfortunately for you, I learned the trip also included Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Tenement Museum, and a food/history component.

Now my take is to judge the people trying to shift the truth because they poisoned the well for the kids on the trip with their own preconceived miserable opinions because their child would not see a broadway show.

Sure, add the minutes spent in each place to have a full account of this “memorable” field trip.

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

You are refusing to listen to the truth. Since so little time was spent in NYC it actually is more accurate to call it a field trip to Dave and Busters in NJ. That is what this was.

I listen to the truth when I hear it. ‘Two days in Jersey at D&B’ becomes harder to defend once the actual itinerary enters the chat.

Unfortunately for you, I learned the trip also included Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Tenement Museum, and a food/history component.

Now my take is to judge the people trying to shift the truth because they poisoned the well for the kids on the trip with their own preconceived miserable opinions because their child would not see a broadway show.

Sure, add the minutes spent in each place to have a full account of this “memorable” field trip.

Broken record at this point. Nobody normal is demanding a stopwatch breakdown of Ellis Island.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the idea that people post here "to get information" is hilarious. As if they didn't already go down that thread in person and via texts. OP is precious.

Yuuuuuppp she was pulling us along because if she had dropped it all we would have quickly clocked it for a solid, normal school trip lost its Broadway cherry on top and became a philosophical crisis about tuition value and perceived culture degradation... how can we feel elite while our children are at a Jersey d&b🫠

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

You are refusing to listen to the truth. Since so little time was spent in NYC it actually is more accurate to call it a field trip to Dave and Busters in NJ. That is what this was.

I listen to the truth when I hear it. ‘Two days in Jersey at D&B’ becomes harder to defend once the actual itinerary enters the chat.

Unfortunately for you, I learned the trip also included Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Tenement Museum, and a food/history component.

Now my take is to judge the people trying to shift the truth because they poisoned the well for the kids on the trip with their own preconceived miserable opinions because their child would not see a broadway show.

Sure, add the minutes spent in each place to have a full account of this “memorable” field trip.

Broken record at this point. Nobody normal is demanding a stopwatch breakdown of Ellis Island.

Of course, it’s just you that don’t want any comment on the itinerary and just label it as “miserable opinion”.

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Anonymous wrote:Certainly when my kid goes to 6th grade I won’t send him on the field trip if he is going to spend time at D&B’s rather than at a Broadway show.

You are going to pull a kid from a full learning experience about immigration if they don't top it off with a broadway play? Seems a bit excessive...

Calling this a learning experience is too generous. Those looked like very brief pit stops on the way to Dave and Busters. Certainly there is no point in bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight for just those pit stops which are quite trivial.

Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty are trivial now?! What a lune...

Yes they are trivial when you live in Washington DC. We have more significant monuments to visit than that. Also how much time exactly was spent on Ellis Island???? What about the in-person trip was more educational than a classroom discussion?

Exactly! Ellis Island was totally a pitstop.

Is OP just sock puppeting now, there is now way there are that many daft parents at Maret... like I get you are upset broadway got pulled, but to shit on the Statue of Liberty... people come from all over the world to see it and your kid was lucky they go to a school that takes them!

Well, yes. There are many daft parents at Maret.

Right. So you think the expense of bussing kids to NYC and staying overnight just to see a monument, while missing two days of school, was justified?

To see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?! Yes! It is an emoji it is so iconic🗽

Real basic tourist stuff. Next you are going to tell me they ate street food and took the subway. Was this trip also planned by a middle school student?

Did you want them to eat at Carbone, stay at the Plaza Hotel, ride around in Uber Blacks, and enjoy caviar and cocktails on a rooftop overlooking the city?

I guess street food, the Statue of Liberty, and the subway aren’t good enough for your middle school aged Larlo with 3 brain cells.

My kid has too many brain cells to have their time wasted by this itinerary. If you are going to visit NYC at least do something worthwhile.

Ellis Island, the Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, and breaking out of the DC bubble to see a new city and new environment is not a waste of time whatsoever. You’re just elitist and self-righteous. Didn’t expect anything different from a Maret parent TBH.

We live in DC so the majority of these kids have probably been to NYC at least a dozen times already. There are plenty of reasons to visit NYC but none of them happened on this trip. My own kids go a few times a year with a much more interesting itinerary.

Do tell us what your “much more interesting itinerary” entails. Your hesitation to share what it is shows your underlying insecurity.

The Met and MoMA. Central Park. Meetings/events at NYU / Columbia. US Open in Flushing. Rockefeller Center / NBC Studios. New York Fed Museum / NYSE / Financial instutution site visits / Museum of American Finance. A full list would be pretty long.

How dull and uninteresting. Touring financial institutions? Really? You’re vapid.

Well, in this thread you can just read comments from parents. When you actually ask the kids it’s another story. My child told me that most of their friends didn’t enjoy the trip to NYC. That’s unfortunate.

I mean kids at that age are very in tune with their parent's reactions and often mirror their parent's sentiments. If the parents are all upset about no broadway and acting like the Statue of Liberty is on par with the world's largest ball of yarn, how do you expect the kids to be excited or engaged?

That is wishful thinking. We don’t even care about broadway. Unfortunately the kids did not enjoy the trip.

You personally may not have, but another parent said text groups were blowing up about it and OP clearly is upset. So if enough of the parents have that sentiment, it is overall going to rub off on the kids and your kid is now going on a trip with a bunch of sogbottoms... that's no fun, but it isn't the school or the trip's fault...

Yes it is the school’s fault. The problem is the itinerary and spending so little time in NYC despite it being a two day trip.

Repeating your lines over and over again isn't going to change my mind. Credibility was unfortunately lost for anyone without anything positive to say about the trip at the top of the post when OP tried to paint it as a trip to Jersey just for the D&B and refused to share the rest of the itinerary. That is what happens when trust is broken. Since I don't know who OP is, I assume anyone sharing her POV I can assume isn't a reliable narrator. Sorry for your experience, but that is how human conditioning works 🤷‍♀️

You are refusing to listen to the truth. Since so little time was spent in NYC it actually is more accurate to call it a field trip to Dave and Busters in NJ. That is what this was.

I listen to the truth when I hear it. ‘Two days in Jersey at D&B’ becomes harder to defend once the actual itinerary enters the chat.

Unfortunately for you, I learned the trip also included Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Tenement Museum, and a food/history component.

Now my take is to judge the people trying to shift the truth because they poisoned the well for the kids on the trip with their own preconceived miserable opinions because their child would not see a broadway show.

Sure, add the minutes spent in each place to have a full account of this “memorable” field trip.

Broken record at this point. Nobody normal is demanding a stopwatch breakdown of Ellis Island.

Of course, it’s just you that don’t want any comment on the itinerary and just label it as “miserable opinion”.

No one is stopping you from saying it. You all keep teasing it like it is some big reveal, but I assure you it is a nothing burger and even if I asked for the exact times, you all would leave parts out. I don't trust the unreliable narrative and you've given me no evidence that I should trust you or ask you for more of your tale...