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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a room parent and we have a similar lottery for field trips. However, I am always give. First right of refusal since I spend a lot of time volunteering with the class, know all the kids, and the teachers know me. If a teacher is going to put a parent in charge of a group of elementary schoolers you bet they are going to lean on the ones they know. [/quote]

That does not make sense at all. Such a system puts most volunteering opportunities in the hands of people who already have the opportunities. Any parent who goes through the volunteer training should have an equal chance. [b]Handling a group of elementary schooler is not hard![/b]
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[b]NP. And yet, some parents are very bad at it. They don't pay attention to instructions, they imagine that they are on a special outing with their kid and ignore everyone else, they argue (!) with the teacher about rules, etc. [/b]

I agree that it's unfair, but I would rather the chaperones take the job seriously.

OP, I avoided being room parent like the plague but if I got a chance to chat with the teacher at "back to school night" or during a conference I would always mention that I liked to volunteer for field trips and that I was very good at following the teacher's instructions. They would laugh, but also be like "yeah, good." I was never buddies with them but always tried to be helpful (like drop off extra t-shirts on tie dye day). I had pretty good luck going on field trips, though there may have also been less competition for it. Hard to know.[/quote]

This is the truth. I went on DC's field trip this week. Teachers clearly said NO GIFT SHOP. One mom decided "rules for thee and not for me" and took her crew in for handfuls of candy. We were away from the school a total of 3.5 hours and every other kid managed to follow the rules. It was totally absurd.[/quote]

Yikes. That mom should be on the no chaperones list from now on. [/quote]

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