Recent field trip to New York City

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Any reason they went to the D&B in NJ vs the one in Times Square which at least is a step above the average D&B.

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Anonymous wrote:Any reason they went to the D&B in NJ vs the one in Times Square which at least is a step above the average D&B.

Yes that's one is in the Michelin Guide and is worthy of our elite children's discerning palets 🫠

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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...

Got it, you just want the facts that you like. Luckily this is a forum and people are allowed to have different opinions. There is no need to agree with you or your self-righteous posts.

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Anonymous wrote:Any reason they went to the D&B in NJ vs the one in Times Square which at least is a step above the average D&B.

Like the ABBA song : Money, money, money….

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The Times Square location is known for stronger notes of neon and a more refined ticket redemption program. I personally find it offers a bolder arcade expression with a longer finish. 🎟️🕹️🍷

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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...

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Anonymous wrote:The Times Square location is known for stronger notes of neon and a more refined ticket redemption program. I personally find it offers a bolder arcade expression with a longer finish. 🎟️🕹️🍷

The Statue of Liberty visit is known for stronger notes of long lines and a more refined selfie-taking program. I personally find it offers a bolder tourist expression with a longer wait-time finish. 🗽📸⏳

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Anonymous wrote:The Times Square location is known for stronger notes of neon and a more refined ticket redemption program. I personally find it offers a bolder arcade expression with a longer finish. 🎟️🕹️🍷

The Statue of Liberty visit is known for stronger notes of long lines and a more refined selfie-taking program. I personally find it offers a bolder tourist expression with a longer wait-time finish. 🗽📸⏳

Personally I only trust field trips with a stronger finish and notes of cultural immersion. 🏛️🗺️🗿

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Anonymous wrote:Any reason they went to the D&B in NJ vs the one in Times Square which at least is a step above the average D&B.

If they stayed in NYC they would have better things to do. They spent very little time in NYC and instead spent the field trip in NJ with few options.

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🗞️ Just reading the WSJ 📰 Today's Headline: DC Children Tragically Exposed to Jersey Arcade Culture

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It goes on and on, my friends.
Some people started posting it
Not know what it was,
And we will go on posting it forever just because …
This is the thread that never ends.
It goes on and on, my friends.

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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.

Those are all things you can do on a trip to NYC - but if the kids are learning about Immigration, the itinerary they did makes a lot more sense. Just like in any big city, there is never a world where you can see all the things in a few days/week. Good thing for us, it is close by, and they may be able to go again another time. I think Ellis Island and the Tenement Museum are very unique experiences that can only be done in NYC, so I think those were good choices! And despite DC parents trying to pretend their kids are sophisticated mini-adults, they are still kids. IMO, they should be allowed to have fun in ways that kids do. And that may mean going to an arcade!

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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.

Those are all things you can do on a trip to NYC - but if the kids are learning about Immigration, the itinerary they did makes a lot more sense. Just like in any big city, there is never a world where you can see all the things in a few days/week. Good thing for us, it is close by, and they may be able to go again another time. I think Ellis Island and the Tenement Museum are very unique experiences that can only be done in NYC, so I think those were good choices! And despite DC parents trying to pretend their kids are sophisticated mini-adults, they are still kids. IMO, they should be allowed to have fun in ways that kids do. And that may mean going to an arcade!

As a first gen immigrant myself, the field trip is performative and of little value to the kids. By how much time they spent on their immigration field trip spots, you can see nobody actually cared.

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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.

Those are all things you can do on a trip to NYC - but if the kids are learning about Immigration, the itinerary they did makes a lot more sense. Just like in any big city, there is never a world where you can see all the things in a few days/week. Good thing for us, it is close by, and they may be able to go again another time. I think Ellis Island and the Tenement Museum are very unique experiences that can only be done in NYC, so I think those were good choices! And despite DC parents trying to pretend their kids are sophisticated mini-adults, they are still kids. IMO, they should be allowed to have fun in ways that kids do. And that may mean going to an arcade!

As a first gen immigrant myself, the field trip is performative and of little value to the kids. By how much time they spent on their immigration field trip spots, you can see nobody actually cared.

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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.

Those are all things you can do on a trip to NYC - but if the kids are learning about Immigration, the itinerary they did makes a lot more sense. Just like in any big city, there is never a world where you can see all the things in a few days/week. Good thing for us, it is close by, and they may be able to go again another time. I think Ellis Island and the Tenement Museum are very unique experiences that can only be done in NYC, so I think those were good choices! And despite DC parents trying to pretend their kids are sophisticated mini-adults, they are still kids. IMO, they should be allowed to have fun in ways that kids do. And that may mean going to an arcade!

The Tenement Museum is fantastic, I add that to a New York field trip even without the immigration focus.