Recent field trip to New York City

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🚌 The real field trip was the discourse we made along the way 🗽🧵🎟️🎮🤣

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Anonymous wrote:🚌 The real field trip was the discourse we made along the way 🗽🧵🎟️🎮🤣

Based on your emoji use, you seem like the Dave and Busters type.

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Anonymous wrote:🚌 The real field trip was the discourse we made along the way 🗽🧵🎟️🎮🤣

Based on your emoji use, you seem like the Dave and Busters type.

I have literally only been once and do not intend to return in this lifetime 🤣 but I also don’t believe it is the existential crisis some of you are making it out to be.

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Anonymous wrote:🚌 The real field trip was the discourse we made along the way 🗽🧵🎟️🎮🤣

Based on your emoji use, you seem like the Dave and Busters type.

I have literally only been once and do not intend to return in this lifetime 🤣 but I also don’t believe it is the existential crisis some of you are making it out to be.

I am also the type to confuse Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood, so perhaps I lack the refined arcade palate required for this discussion...

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Anonymous wrote:Is a 60k tuition school. But I wanted some input from actual parents that send their kids there.

What school? This is ridiculous. It is supposed to be a cultural experience. Sadly many of the newly wealthy in this area have never been to a Broadway show and they get on school boards and have influence etc...

What???? No way that it is just some Novo-riche parent who thinks Dave n Busters in Jersey is chic 🤣

I think Dave and Busters in NJ is definitely a cultural experience.

💀I mean it was a culture shock for me!

Given the $60k tuition perhaps the purpose of the trip was to experience class/cultural differences?

The local waffle house would have been better for that purpose.

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Anonymous wrote:The kids loved it.

They would have loved it even more if they spent more time at the local D&B instead of sitting in a bus for hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Is a 60k tuition school. But I wanted some input from actual parents that send their kids there.

What school? This is ridiculous. It is supposed to be a cultural experience. Sadly many of the newly wealthy in this area have never been to a Broadway show and they get on school boards and have influence etc...

What???? No way that it is just some Novo-riche parent who thinks Dave n Busters in Jersey is chic 🤣

I think Dave and Busters in NJ is definitely a cultural experience.

💀I mean it was a culture shock for me!

Given the $60k tuition perhaps the purpose of the trip was to experience class/cultural differences?

The local waffle house would have been better for that purpose.

I love the Waffle House. I wish we had one in the DMV. Don't insult it.

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Anonymous wrote:Is a 60k tuition school. But I wanted some input from actual parents that send their kids there.

What school? This is ridiculous. It is supposed to be a cultural experience. Sadly many of the newly wealthy in this area have never been to a Broadway show and they get on school boards and have influence etc...

What???? No way that it is just some Novo-riche parent who thinks Dave n Busters in Jersey is chic 🤣

I think Dave and Busters in NJ is definitely a cultural experience.

💀I mean it was a culture shock for me!

Given the $60k tuition perhaps the purpose of the trip was to experience class/cultural differences?

The local waffle house would have been better for that purpose.

I love the Waffle House. I wish we had one in the DMV. Don't insult it.

It is great for picking up new vocabulary or watching a casual fist fight / hair pulling brawl. Then people just sit back down and eat like nothing happened.

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Anonymous wrote:Is a 60k tuition school. But I wanted some input from actual parents that send their kids there.

What school? This is ridiculous. It is supposed to be a cultural experience. Sadly many of the newly wealthy in this area have never been to a Broadway show and they get on school boards and have influence etc...

What???? No way that it is just some Novo-riche parent who thinks Dave n Busters in Jersey is chic 🤣

I think Dave and Busters in NJ is definitely a cultural experience.

💀I mean it was a culture shock for me!

Given the $60k tuition perhaps the purpose of the trip was to experience class/cultural differences?

The local waffle house would have been better for that purpose.

I love the Waffle House. I wish we had one in the DMV. Don't insult it.

It is great for picking up new vocabulary or watching a casual fist fight / hair pulling brawl. Then people just sit back down and eat like nothing happened.

Probably a lot like Dave and Busters in New Jersey.

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Anonymous wrote:Is a 60k tuition school. But I wanted some input from actual parents that send their kids there.

What school? This is ridiculous. It is supposed to be a cultural experience. Sadly many of the newly wealthy in this area have never been to a Broadway show and they get on school boards and have influence etc...

What???? No way that it is just some Novo-riche parent who thinks Dave n Busters in Jersey is chic 🤣

I think Dave and Busters in NJ is definitely a cultural experience.

💀I mean it was a culture shock for me!

Given the $60k tuition perhaps the purpose of the trip was to experience class/cultural differences?

The local waffle house would have been better for that purpose.

I love the Waffle House. I wish we had one in the DMV. Don't insult it.

It is great for picking up new vocabulary or watching a casual fist fight / hair pulling brawl. Then people just sit back down and eat like nothing happened.

Probably a lot like Dave and Busters in New Jersey.

I guess it is fitting they included this in a field trip about the immigrant experience. Slow clap for whoever planned this.

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Maybe she thought it's part of the New York experience.

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Anonymous wrote:DJ Middle School was too busy to plan this!

Who is DJ Middle School?

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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.

Absolutely! It's a little off the beaten path, but an excellent museum and perfectly appropriate for that age group especially with the tie-in to the curriculum. Especially coming from DC, where kids have easy access to the smithsonians and other world class museums, going some place more unique like that seems like a totally reasonable decision for a field trip. And if the school through in a lunch trip to dave and busters for some silly fun, I really have a hard time getting upset about that.

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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.

Absolutely! It's a little off the beaten path, but an excellent museum and perfectly appropriate for that age group especially with the tie-in to the curriculum. Especially coming from DC, where kids have easy access to the smithsonians and other world class museums, going some place more unique like that seems like a totally reasonable decision for a field trip. And if the school through in a lunch trip to dave and busters for some silly fun, I really have a hard time getting upset about that.

Exactly!!!