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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah all the PTA can do is throw money at you, maybe (not if you’re at a title 1 school). Requesting the field trip, getting approval, communicating with the venue, getting permission slips, taking the health training for the kids with medical issues who go, because if a kid with epilepsy or diabetes is on your trip you have to be trained to assist them, and they will always be on the trip, putting the lunch orders in with the cafeteria and picking them up, arranging for chaperones, creating student groups, getting there, keeping track of the kids, and getting back- this is SO MUCH WORK for often maybe 2 hours at the actual destination. Forgive us if we don’t choose to add this to our plates as often as you think you’re entitled to expect. [/quote]

Who's doing all the planning for the Lewis program trips? If your experience is the norm, then there's no way the teacher over there is planning dozens of field trips every year by herself. And as far as I know I'm fairly certain she is the sole teacher in the program. Have they centralized all the paperwork to admin? Seems like the process is inconsistent across FCPS.[/quote]

I have no idea what that program is but there’s often program coordinators for special academic programs (like IB- there’d always an IB coordinator at IB schools) whose job it is to do stuff like that and they don’t teach 5 classes like other classroom teachers. My school has an activities coordinator who plans all the trips for the senior class but the rest of us have to run all our field trip planning that I described through… they don’t do the actual planning , they just put in the bus request and log the field trip with the country transportation department. [/quote]

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