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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.

My kids are 1st and 4th.

The 4th grader is not normally a shy/quiet kid, but on field trips to places that have a lot of things to read she tends to wander and read everything she can.  Kind of drives us crazy when we're out as a family to a museum because she is so slow going through and literally wants to read everything.  She got "lost" once on a field trip because the flighty parent chaperone didn't realize she wasn't walking with the group.  She had stopped to read something on the path and they kept going.  DD had to find a worker to help her.

My 1st grader went "unaccounted for" for over 30 minutes (this was actually at school not on a field trip) when his class and another class passed in the hallway and he followed the other class outside.  He missed an entire class period before telling a recess monitor that he didn't think he was with the right class (happened within the 1st week of K).

At a super busy Smithsonian (Friday of a holiday weekend, pouring rain - so every tourist in town was in a museum), 4-5 kids were assigned to each chaperone to go explore the museum on their own.  I watched several chaperone's just let the kids take off and run far enough away from them that they couldn't see them.  I was standing right next to them so I know they couldn't see them.  They were too busy chatting with their friends or reading the signs.  This was 2nd grade.

So, while I trust the teachers for the most part, I don't think they can be responsible for 25+ kids at one time on a field trip.  It's the parents I don't trust and I feel justified in my feelings based on observation.

Oddly enough, I'm actually a very adventurous person and push my kids to be as well. They are very independent in terms of thought and activities, but safety is just not negotiable to me.

To the poster that mentioned school shootings, 9/11, and car crashes.  Good point and you are right.  But there are several differences.  I have military friends who have talked to my kids, as well as theirs, about what to do in an active shooter situation.  It could happen anywhere and my kids are as prepared as they can be.  9/11 was one instance and while we haven't stopped flying, that is the main reason I don't want my kids to be in DC by themselves.  I have no way to get to them if they are in a city with limited access by bridges.  Our go plan does not include going towards DC.  The risk of injury/death in car crashes are mitigated by the proper use of seat belts, knowing how to get out of a car going under in water, and only being in cars by drivers I know to be cautious drivers.

Plus these incidents are much less frequent in my "world" considering both of my kids have become "lost" in school situations and none of the other incidents have happened to us.

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