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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hated the Jamestown trip as a teacher. Such a long day. It’s very frustrating to take kids to anywhere in DC with a bus from FCPS, because the time you can actually be there is so short. You have to rush the whole time and the kids can’t have lunch until they get back. They are cranky and hungry. There are so many cool places to take kids in DC, but it’s so hard.

I have been on the Kennedy Center trip so many times. The kids cannot get out of line, because they have it all organized by school so that your bus pulls up as you exit. The show is geared to children, but is almost always geared to younger kids, so the fourth-graders are bored. They do try, and the music teachers are supposed to prepare them for what they will see.

I wish they still took kids to planetariums. Those were good trips.[/quote]

This makes me sad! I grew up in Maryland and felt like every field trip was to a DC museum. And my kids haven’t had that at all![/quote]

Me too. MCPS and all of our field trips were to the Smithsonians, to the Kennedy Center, to the zoo. My own kids didnt have the same experience in MCPS. Going to museum, and only looking at three paintings is pitiful. I understand only discussing three paintings, but just looking at 3 is pitiful. 
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First poster here... as I reflect on it, we went to the Zoo, Natural History, American History, Gallery of Art when I was a kid in a southern Maryland school.  I don't recall my kids getting to the American History museum on a field trip, but I know they have been to the KC. I don't think I ever did that. I also did the Washington Monument one year.  But I would think they should do the American Indian museum. And my high school student studying civil rights right now should get on a trip to the African American museum ([b]why do high schoolers not take FTs like this[/b]??).

My 6th grader is also salty about missing Jamestown.[/quote]

Because if a class took them they would miss all their other classes and get behind on a lot of work--because many kids in their other classes wouldn't be on the field trip.  Also, not many people want to be responsible for 100s of adolescents--and most of them aren't going to want parent chaperones at that age.  Field trips in HS are more tied to affinity organizations--band, theater, various clubs. [/quote]

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