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

Please explicitly name what you think we should be “resisting.” [/quote]

I do not know because I am not a teacher. But it does not sound like the job was always as impossible as it is now and HW and field trips are not new pieces of the job.

I hear the teachers above about out if control kids. I think part of the problem definitely is the inability to leave some kids at school for chronic misbehavior . [/quote]

You really had the nerve to tell teachers they need to resist stuff but you didn’t even know what it was you wanted them to resist 😂😂 every court needs its jester I suppose [/quote]

:roll: 
Look it’s YOUR job, not mine. I’m admitting I do not know the details of YOUR job. But your job impacts my family and the experience my kid gets at school (as in teachers’ jobs impact students’ families). I’ve been to school. I have an oldest that was born in 2007 and had multiple great field trips at a MCPS school. My experience was that school included field trips and homework shared back in a relatively timely way. HW and field trips are not new fangoed additions to teaching. Yet the demands of teaching have become too much for teachers lately (I mean this seriously - the demands seem excessive based on what people share here). Yet the parts teachers seem to be pushing back on are those that most broadly impact kids like HW and field trips. Surely there are other parts of the job that are new and have not always been there - those are what should be examined for how to revise them to make teaching viable again and allow time for the things a normal teaching job has always included.

Not sure what you’re so hostile in your replies.  [/quote]
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The PP is hostile because you’re telling them how to do their job and you have no idea what you’re talking about. Let me guess - you don’t work. [/quote]

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