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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are times I feel like that person…

Back in the 80’s and 90’s we had maybe one field trip a year and that was it. I don’t remember any in MS or HS.  Field trips are not a necessity, they can be fun and educational but they are not mandatory.

Plenty of schools don’t have enough money to fund field trips and they don’t have PTAs that can run fund raising to provide field trips and after school activities. The PTA cannot do the paperwork associated with the field trip, that paperwork ends up being the backbone for any liability that might arise from the trip. Teachers are over worked as it is, adding on extra things is a lot. Kids behavior has gone downhill which makes field trips even more of a nightmare, do you think it is fun to watch the kids who are nightmares at school at a museum? Or Cox farm? Or any other location?

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If the PTA does everything else, you can do the goddamn paperwork. [/quote]

Way to completely ignore the multiple posters who perfectly articulated what falls on the teacher. The bulk of the work CAN’T be done by the PTA.

But let’s be honest here: you don’t care. Your cursing above illustrates that quite well. Teachers should simply provide for you, shouldn’t they?

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What several are reacting to is the notion that just because teachers have done some of these prices in the past that they MUST be the only ones to do them. While the health training for sure needs done the teacher I don’t understand why a room mom can’t create a draft of all the forms needed for the teacher so she just needs to hit submit, create the permission slip forms for the teacher to hand out and keep a running list for her of who has returned them, do the logistics calls with the venue and - if the principal will allow - logistics calls with the bus transport end. It seems like a refusal to consider how the process could be reworked to outsource more of the work to volunteers.  [/quote]

Frankly, it’s because overseeing someone doing this work is just as much work as doing it myself.

The mom isn’t familiar with requirements, forms, employees we’ll need to work with, etc. I’d have to teach the person how to do all of this work, and then turn around and teach their replacement. And it’s not worth it for the small fraction they can actually do as a volunteer.

And since the liability falls on me either way, I’m going to make sure it’s done correctly. [/quote]

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