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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6th grader is going on this trip soon. As soon as I saw the schedule I was just as "wtf" as all the other people in this post.  The planned schedule (assuming no traffic) only allows for 75 minutes in the museum (and that includes unloading and reloading the busses so really more of just an hour in the museum).  It's an absolute waste of time.  After missing so many field trips and not even getting to go on one last year (other grades did but the 5th grade teachers planned nothing) it's such a disappointment.  There are 6th graders going to Gettysburg, Philadelphia, and other interesting places and here we are stuck with the Portrait Gallery.  And it's likely to be the one and only field trip.

It's such a bummer because once you're out of elementary school, there really are no other opportunities for these kinds of learning activities.  We take our kids to a ton of different places but there was just always something so exciting about those field trips when you were a kid.  Kind of like snow days.  [b]I guess they're a thing of the past[/b].[/quote]

Yes, it seems like they are.  I get it, teachers are burnt out and kids don't behave, so kids don't get anything interesting at school.  It's just learning from slides and misbehaving.  If kids won't behave, then teachers aren't going to take them on field trips.  [/quote]

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