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[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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Parents need to volunteer or the school needs to hire a coordinator [/quote]

FCPS schools all had to cut SPED positions this school year and you think there’s staffing money to hire a… field trip planner? [/quote]

As posted earlier, Lewis HS appears to have a coordinator whose job is field trip planning for their academy program. They've arranged close to a hundred trips in three years - in my opinion that seems like having a field trip planner at every school is worth it, if that level of production is to be expected.[/quote]

Sorry, are you saying we hire 200 field trip coordinators.[/quote]

I volunteer for that role!

And now we are 200 teachers short. [/quote]

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