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[quote=Anonymous]The parents who are very involved with their elementary-aged kids, chaperone many field trips, and volunteer in the classrooms often get what you're saying OP.  I have not been on a single field trip where I haven't seen something fairly appalling happen.  I have seen a lost kid on most of the trips I've been on (close-in, 10 rated NoVA elementary).  I've also seen stuff like chaperones sending many kindergartners into a public bathroom at the Smithsonian by themselves while the parents sip coffee and chat among one another (sometimes stuff like that is how a kid gets lost).  Many of the chaperones are crap, and many of the chaperones have very different ideas of what "supervision" looks like.  Few of them approach it like a job for the day, and many of them are there because they took a day off of work and therefore they spend much of the field trip focused on bonding with their own child.  I don't know why the parents don't have to get notified when kids get lost happens.  In daycare, I believe it is mandatory to report stuff like that.

Many of the kids are dramatically impulsive, too - especially when they get excited and are out of their environments.  I was laughing at the trick or treating thread where you had posters confident that their 7 year old sons are so street smart and would of course never forget to look both ways when crossing the streets on Halloween.  Duh!  Only a helicopter parent would think otherwise...  Some of you are so self-involved and overwhelmed with the stress in your own lives that you have no idea what your kids act like in different environments - especially when they're all sugared up and/or doing something out of routine.

But the second you dare point any of this out to parents who don't want to hear it, you're called a "helicopter" parent.  Stranger abductions are rare, donchaknow!  Well, you know what is WAY more rare?  School shootings, but it is universally accepted in the case of possible school violence that precautions should be taken and warning signs should be responded to swiftly in order to try to avoid disaster.[/quote]

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