Recent field trip to New York City

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Anonymous wrote:My kids' former k-8 used to go to Costa Rica for a week in 8th grade. Then they switched to 5 days in New Mexico. Then post covid they switched to 2 nights in NYC (with Broadway play and activities).

Seriously hope this post is about a different school! Public and private schools across the country all come here to DC for 8th grade. Our kids should at least get a 3 day trip somewhere fun...

Agreed ..as a parent whose class missed Costa Rica but did get NM and my younger kid went to NYC..I hope not this 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.

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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids' former k-8 used to go to Costa Rica for a week in 8th grade. Then they switched to 5 days in New Mexico. Then post covid they switched to 2 nights in NYC (with Broadway play and activities).

Seriously hope this post is about a different school! Public and private schools across the country all come here to DC for 8th grade. Our kids should at least get a 3 day trip somewhere fun...

This was for 6th grade.

No it’s 8th…6th did an overnight

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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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Don’t be mad because you tried to make a point and failed.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids' former k-8 used to go to Costa Rica for a week in 8th grade. Then they switched to 5 days in New Mexico. Then post covid they switched to 2 nights in NYC (with Broadway play and activities).

Seriously hope this post is about a different school! Public and private schools across the country all come here to DC for 8th grade. Our kids should at least get a 3 day trip somewhere fun...

Agreed ..as a parent whose class missed Costa Rica but did get NM and my younger kid went to NYC..I hope not this school

That is indeed very sad.

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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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Don’t be mad because you tried to make a point and failed.

The only failure here is your grasp of the English language.

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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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Don’t be mad because you tried to make a point and failed.

The only failure here is your grasp of the English language.

And sending kids to D&B's to play video games.... total failure.

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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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Don’t be mad because you tried to make a point and failed.

The only failure here is your grasp of the English language.

And your failure to grasp what an online forum is.

“Distracted from” is correct in meaning that you (for unknown reasons) are distracted from noticing there have been 19 pages of comments beyond OP’s. You clearly read it as meaning “distracted by,” which is a common mistaken use of the term.

Sorry that you want to control what people talk about and that those people have lost interest in it.

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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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Don’t be mad because you tried to make a point and failed.

The only failure here is your grasp of the English language.

And your failure to grasp what an online forum is.

“Distracted from” is correct in meaning that you (for unknown reasons) are distracted from noticing there have been 19 pages of comments beyond OP’s. You clearly read it as meaning “distracted by,” which is a common mistaken use of the term.

Sorry that you want to control what people talk about and that those people have lost interest in it.

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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.

What does that mean? It’s no different than their kid going to the movies or an amusement park. It’s not worthy of a school field trip…but what pure fun activities do you think are off limits to private school parents?

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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.

What does that mean? It’s no different than their kid going to the movies or an amusement park. It’s not worthy of a school field trip…but what pure fun activities do you think are off limits to private school parents?

I guess what PP meant is that D&B's is not really the first choice in terms of entertainment for kids. First of all, you are sending your kid to a place where adults are drinking alcohol and then playing video games next to your kids. Second the kids are just playing video games and not socializing. Third, they are in a dark place with poor ventilation. From all the entertainment options available, I am not sure is really the top choice for most parents.

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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.

What does that mean? It’s no different than their kid going to the movies or an amusement park. It’s not worthy of a school field trip…but what pure fun activities do you think are off limits to private school parents?

No different from eating Wendy's and hanging out at Chuck E Cheese.

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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.

Please look up the definition of distracted. It doesn’t mean what you think it does.

Don’t be mad because you tried to make a point and failed.

The only failure here is your grasp of the English language.

And your failure to grasp what an online forum is.

“Distracted from” is correct in meaning that you (for unknown reasons) are distracted from noticing there have been 19 pages of comments beyond OP’s. You clearly read it as meaning “distracted by,” which is a common mistaken use of the term.

Sorry that you want to control what people talk about and that those people have lost interest in it.

Shhhhhhh.