Pregnant teacher on school trip
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Anonymous
| $2k for five days in New York?? Wow, someone is making out. |
Anonymous
| I could only understand the irritation if it was a situation where popular teacher Ms. X agreed to help drum up student interest in a trip by advertising the trip as one that she would personally chaperone. But Ms. X knew from the beginning that she was pregnant and would never be able to go and that a less popular teacher Ms. Y (a real grouch) would really be the one chaperoning.... |
Anonymous
I agree. I was hoping for something more interesting than anxiety ridden helimom. |
Anonymous
| This is why I would never want to be a teacher. |
Anonymous
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You may say we're judgmental, but you are coming across as completely unhinged in your post. You have turned what should be really nice news for this woman and her husband into a unbelievably self-centered bitch session about you and your kid. You may not like the responses to your post, but I think it's because you are not possessing a very good meter on what is an appropriate response to this situation. I suggest you take a step back and do some self-reflection on what could possibly be so bad about this whole thing. The trip isn't for SEVERAL MONTHS. You were willing to send your child off with this person so I'm assuming you felt like she and her husband are responsible people. Why don't you give her the benefit of the doubt that she will be responsible about setting this trip up in an appropriate manner? That's the least you could do.
Also, unfriend her on Facebook...you do not sound like someone who she should be "friends" with. It's not appropriate. She should be able to have her own life without your pushy judgements involved! |
Anonymous
No, we don't get it. |
Anonymous
And flying instead of taking a bus or the train is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
| Wow. |
Anonymous
| My child's school goes to NY in 8th grade. It's $900. |
Anonymous
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Easy there is so much to do in NYC and it isn't cheap:
Train ticket Hotel rooms Meals for three days Museums/The Met, Natural History Museum, MOMO, Guggenheim The Lincoln Center Broadway Show Top of the Rock Empire State Building Circle Line Tour Bus Tour A day trip to the shore Coney Island Etc Etc Etc |
Anonymous
This is OP. I want to clarify that we have moved AWAY from the DC area. It would be an extremely long bus ride. Specifically, my concern is that if they cannot find a chaperone, I will be out of pocket $2k. I would go, but I'm having surgery in April. My husband will not be able to take the time off work, as he won't have a year at his current job until late July. The sonogram she posted says 11 weeks, dated December 10th. Someone knew about November 17th, when son came home from an event with the rumor. (I checked my calendar for the date of that event) So, she told SOMEONE in the school, and DENIED it. |
Anonymous
I am pretty sure that they will be able to find a chaperone at some point IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. Also, are you really getting upset with the teacher for not wanting to tell the world in early pregnancy that she was in early pregnancy? She doesn't owe you an early announcement of her pregnancy just because you spent $2,000 on a school trip. |
Anonymous
Although, if your child goes to the Roberto Clemente MS magnet program, even that is deeply problematic -- $900 for a required school trip in a public school. |
Anonymous
The trip will be chaperoned. No one wants the liability of turning teenagers loose in NYC for five days. Who cares if she denied it? That's her business. If she had been diagnosed with cancer, but didn't want to make an announcement until she knew the severity and treatment plan, would you be acting like this? |
Anonymous
My guess is that yes, the OP would be acting like this. |