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.

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!!!

Sure but barely any time was spent at the museum.

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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!!!

Sure but barely any time was spent at the museum.

How much time?

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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!!!

Sure but barely any time was spent at the museum.

How much time?

Most of the tours are an hour(ish) so my money would be it was an hour maybe less if students get an expedited tour because they have a shorter attention span...

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The Lab School...? They used to take theatre kids to Broadway for several shows.

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Gross. I would never allow my kids to go NJ for a Dave and Busters.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School...? They used to take theatre kids to Broadway for several shows.

Because it’s a normal school.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. I would never allow my kids to go NJ for a Dave and Busters.

+1 double gross

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They could totally have done a picnic in a nice park, or short hike on the way back. The kids can go anytime to D&B’s.

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Anonymous wrote:They could totally have done a picnic in a nice park, or short hike on the way back. The kids can go anytime to D&B’s.

Most private school parents aren't letting their kids step foot in D&B.

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Anonymous wrote:They could totally have done a picnic in a nice park, or short hike on the way back. The kids can go anytime to D&B’s.

Most private school parents aren't letting their kids step foot in D&B.

Specially with their tuition money.

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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.

Your kids must hate you. None of this would be of any interest to middle schoolers, except for the Met/MoMA and Central Park. The museums the school took them to actually had content that was relevant to history classwork. No middle schoolers will enjoy a Goldman Sachs site visit or meetings at universities.

You’re so off-base it’s hysterical.

+1. I work in finance and FRBNY’s museum wouldn’t be in my top 50 for kids in New York. NYSE is a snooze for a kid too—the old days of pit trading may have made visiting an exchange interesting but not today. And a financial institution? Why? To see rows of computers and a 23 year old analyst that has slept 10 hours that whole week? Riveting.

Ellis island/tenement museum are a much better itinerary than this. This seems like an itinerary you would get if you asked AI to pretend to be a 1990s midwesterner that has never visited New York but has a kid moderately interested in economics and wants a small bit of arts and culture thrown in.

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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.

Your kids must hate you. None of this would be of any interest to middle schoolers, except for the Met/MoMA and Central Park. The museums the school took them to actually had content that was relevant to history classwork. No middle schoolers will enjoy a Goldman Sachs site visit or meetings at universities.

You’re so off-base it’s hysterical.

+1. I work in finance and FRBNY’s museum wouldn’t be in my top 50 for kids in New York. NYSE is a snooze for a kid too—the old days of pit trading may have made visiting an exchange interesting but not today. And a financial institution? Why? To see rows of computers and a 23 year old analyst that has slept 10 hours that whole week? Riveting.

Ellis island/tenement museum are a much better itinerary than this. This seems like an itinerary you would get if you asked AI to pretend to be a 1990s midwesterner that has never visited New York but has a kid moderately interested in economics and wants a small bit of arts and culture thrown in.

It seems the AI itinerary hallucinated a bit when it included D&B’s.

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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.

Your kids must hate you. None of this would be of any interest to middle schoolers, except for the Met/MoMA and Central Park. The museums the school took them to actually had content that was relevant to history classwork. No middle schoolers will enjoy a Goldman Sachs site visit or meetings at universities.

You’re so off-base it’s hysterical.

+1. I work in finance and FRBNY’s museum wouldn’t be in my top 50 for kids in New York. NYSE is a snooze for a kid too—the old days of pit trading may have made visiting an exchange interesting but not today. And a financial institution? Why? To see rows of computers and a 23 year old analyst that has slept 10 hours that whole week? Riveting.

Ellis island/tenement museum are a much better itinerary than this. This seems like an itinerary you would get if you asked AI to pretend to be a 1990s midwesterner that has never visited New York but has a kid moderately interested in economics and wants a small bit of arts and culture thrown in.

You seem distracted from the original point of the thread. What the heck was this school thinking?

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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.

Your kids must hate you. None of this would be of any interest to middle schoolers, except for the Met/MoMA and Central Park. The museums the school took them to actually had content that was relevant to history classwork. No middle schoolers will enjoy a Goldman Sachs site visit or meetings at universities.

You’re so off-base it’s hysterical.

+1. I work in finance and FRBNY’s museum wouldn’t be in my top 50 for kids in New York. NYSE is a snooze for a kid too—the old days of pit trading may have made visiting an exchange interesting but not today. And a financial institution? Why? To see rows of computers and a 23 year old analyst that has slept 10 hours that whole week? Riveting.

Ellis island/tenement museum are a much better itinerary than this. This seems like an itinerary you would get if you asked AI to pretend to be a 1990s midwesterner that has never visited New York but has a kid moderately interested in economics and wants a small bit of arts and culture thrown in.

You seem distracted from the original point of the thread. What the heck was this school thinking?

And you seem distracted from the ongoing conversation over the past 19 pages. This is how a message board 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.

Your kids must hate you. None of this would be of any interest to middle schoolers, except for the Met/MoMA and Central Park. The museums the school took them to actually had content that was relevant to history classwork. No middle schoolers will enjoy a Goldman Sachs site visit or meetings at universities.

You’re so off-base it’s hysterical.

+1. I work in finance and FRBNY’s museum wouldn’t be in my top 50 for kids in New York. NYSE is a snooze for a kid too—the old days of pit trading may have made visiting an exchange interesting but not today. And a financial institution? Why? To see rows of computers and a 23 year old analyst that has slept 10 hours that whole week? Riveting.

Ellis island/tenement museum are a much better itinerary than this. This seems like an itinerary you would get if you asked AI to pretend to be a 1990s midwesterner that has never visited New York but has a kid moderately interested in economics and wants a small bit of arts and culture thrown in.

You seem distracted from the original point of the thread. What the heck was this school thinking?

And you seem distracted from the ongoing conversation over the past 19 pages. This is how a message board works.

100% they are tunnel visioned on the D&B meltdown 🫠 logic on how field trips actually function and engage kids need not apply...