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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

They have a program coordinator. That person doesn't teach classes and organizes all the field trips.[/quote]

This is how it should be. When I was essentially a volunteer coordinator i was told it’s impossible to create this position as a paid one (I didn’t want it but I wanted continuity). 
Well guess what I guess where there is a  will there is a way? Or maybe it depends on the district (I wasn’t at FCPS) [/quote]

Yes. It is impossible to create it at your average elementary school because it isn’t justified so it isn’t part of the staffing budget. As part of a specialized program that receives its own funding, it may be a budgetary allotment. At a title 1 school which receives additional funding for staffing, something of this nature (though it would come with many more responsibilities, it wouldn’t just be “field trip coordinator”) may be possible. Again, people who don’t work in the public school system thinking they can just speak on things they know nothing about is irksome. [/quote]

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