You can't stop in on your child's field trip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, you people are literally insane. Literally literally.

Disruptive: It is a group of kids walking through a museum not heart surgery. Have you ever been on one of these things? About 10% of the kids pay attention, the rest chatter and bink along.

They don't know what custody arrangement you have: For the love of Jesus. This is the equivalent of never letting your kid go to the mall because there might be a shooting. Of course there are those situations but let's not take all the life out of life because of an exceedingly unlikely scenario.

Helicopter: She's not a helicopter, she's a mom who works who thinks it would be neat to see her child out and about with their classmates. Not everyone can take off to chaperone. I'm sure her child would be jazzed for her mom to show up and walk around a bit. Lots of working families don't get enough time with their kids and don't get to share in a lot of the things that people with flexible arrangements or those with SAHMS do. (I'm a SAHM fyi)

I say go for it. Drop in, tag along. Love your child and ignore these literally crazy people.

The school has already told her not to.

Did you ever sign your kid out early for a holiday? Of course they are going to say that. These are the same institutions that say the kids can't play tag because it is too "dangerous" it is your kid and you can see them whenever you damn well please.

[Anonymous]

Museum field trip reality: The teachers tell the chaperone's and their 4 assigned children (that all want to go in different directions) to meet back at a certain time and you are pretty much let loose in a packed museum. There are hundreds of other tourists (including Johnny Wing Nut) who are literally standing next to your children looking at display cases. I would be much more concerned about Johnny Wing Nut than OP stopping in to say hello to her kiddo.

[Anonymous]

Is OP's school going to tell the rest of the people in the museum they can't be there either?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Museum field trip reality: The teachers tell the chaperone's and their 4 assigned children (that all want to go in different directions) to meet back at a certain time and you are pretty much let loose in a packed museum. There are hundreds of other tourists (including Johnny Wing Nut) who are literally standing next to your children looking at display cases. I would be much more concerned about Johnny Wing Nut than OP stopping in to say hello to her kiddo.

THIS!!!

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand some of the responses here.

OP - I understand you thought it wouldn’t be a big deal, but you asked and the school said no so why would you want to just disregard this and cause trouble? People have given some pretty good explanations as to why this doesn’t work - it is disruptive. Chaperoning is about being helpful to the teacher not about you and your kid on the ideal time schedule for your family.

Just because you can technically do something (show up in a public space) doesn’t mean you should (disregard school policy)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, you people are literally insane. Literally literally.

Disruptive: It is a group of kids walking through a museum not heart surgery. Have you ever been on one of these things? About 10% of the kids pay attention, the rest chatter and bink along.

They don't know what custody arrangement you have: For the love of Jesus. This is the equivalent of never letting your kid go to the mall because there might be a shooting. Of course there are those situations but let's not take all the life out of life because of an exceedingly unlikely scenario.

Helicopter: She's not a helicopter, she's a mom who works who thinks it would be neat to see her child out and about with their classmates. Not everyone can take off to chaperone. I'm sure her child would be jazzed for her mom to show up and walk around a bit. Lots of working families don't get enough time with their kids and don't get to share in a lot of the things that people with flexible arrangements or those with SAHMS do. (I'm a SAHM fyi)

I say go for it. Drop in, tag along. Love your child and ignore these literally crazy people.

The school has already told her not to.

Did you ever sign your kid out early for a holiday? Of course they are going to say that. These are the same institutions that say the kids can't play tag because it is too "dangerous" it is your kid and you can see them whenever you damn well please.

Do you stop in/tag along when your kid is in class, too? Just to see what they are up to, maybe wave or say hi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, you people are literally insane. Literally literally.

Disruptive: It is a group of kids walking through a museum not heart surgery. Have you ever been on one of these things? About 10% of the kids pay attention, the rest chatter and bink along.

They don't know what custody arrangement you have: For the love of Jesus. This is the equivalent of never letting your kid go to the mall because there might be a shooting. Of course there are those situations but let's not take all the life out of life because of an exceedingly unlikely scenario.

Helicopter: She's not a helicopter, she's a mom who works who thinks it would be neat to see her child out and about with their classmates. Not everyone can take off to chaperone. I'm sure her child would be jazzed for her mom to show up and walk around a bit. Lots of working families don't get enough time with their kids and don't get to share in a lot of the things that people with flexible arrangements or those with SAHMS do. (I'm a SAHM fyi)

I say go for it. Drop in, tag along. Love your child and ignore these literally crazy people.

The school has already told her not to.

Did you ever sign your kid out early for a holiday? Of course they are going to say that. These are the same institutions that say the kids can't play tag because it is too "dangerous" it is your kid and you can see them whenever you damn well please.

Do you stop in/tag along when your kid is in class, too? Just to see what they are up to, maybe wave or say hi.

It is a public place so they can’t tell you not to go and even if it is a dump rule the school has already asked you not to go. I would not go.