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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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In my experience title 1 schools have enough funds but not enough manpower. These are the kids who need it the most. Make it happen if you can or advocate for it if you can’t [/quote]

So you want the people who are already burdened and overextended… to give more?
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So it seems.[/quote]

I’d like teachers to basically focus on doing what they used to do 10-15 years ago and start resisting the rest rather than resisting the stuff they have always done (field trips are not some crazy new thing) and that impacts the most students. It is not field trips and HW grading that have “broken” teachers yet they are the parts that are getting jettisoned. No - the NEW parts need jettisoned and resisted to try to make teaching doable again. [/quote]

Are you a teacher?

Because you are dead wrong about what’s breaking the profession. I’ve been teaching almost 25 years. This job is 3, possibly 4, times harder than it used to be. Yes, grading is breaking me. I’ve spent half my break grading papers and ignoring my own family. I could write five more paragraphs about what’s breaking me, but that’s not the subject of this thread.

And yes, field trips are harder now. There’s more paperwork and more rules. Students and parents aren’t nearly as easy to work with, either. I have to tell chaperones not to do things; I have to monitor adults just as much as the kids. And I’m doing all of this work that takes away from the Mount Everest-sized pile of work back at school.

Things aren’t like they used to be 10-15 years ago. Not even close. [/quote]

Also teacher for 20+ years, it’s the behavior of the adults and kids that make me not want to go.[/quote]

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